Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation

Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation provides integrated care for your muscles, nerves, bones and joints using diagnosis, treatment, education and rehabilitation. After an examination, physical medicine and rehabilitation specialists will provide tools and resources to manage your condition and help you remain as active as possible. Together, you will create an individualized plan to restore movement and function.

Nonsurgical treatment options will be the first consideration and choice, which can include therapeutic exercises, medications and a variety of procedures.

Conditions treated 

• Bursitis
• Carpal tunnel syndrome
• Complex regional pain syndrome
• Foot conditions and injuries
• Joint pain and arthritis, including hip, shoulder, knee, wrist and hand
• Ligament injuries
• Limb amputations and deformities
• Lower back pain, including disc disease and arthritis
• Movement disorders
• Multiple sclerosis
• Muscle pain syndromes
• Muscle and tendon injuries
• Neck pain, including disc disease, arthritis and whiplash injuries
• Osteoarthritis
• Pain from sports injuries
• Pinched nerve related to sciatica and radiculopathy
• Piriformis syndrome
• Reflex sympathetic pain syndrome
• Sacroiliac joint dysfunction
• Spinal cord injuries
• Spinal stenosis
• Stroke
• Tendinitis
• Traumatic brain injury  

Treatment technologies

Advanced technology is available to reduce pain and increase function.

• Botox
• Diagnostic musculoskeletal ultrasound
• Evaluation using radiofrequency or cryoablation
• Joint injections to relieve hip, knee, shoulder, wrist, elbow, hand, foot and ankle pain
• Prosthetics and orthotics
• Spinal cord stimulation
• Therapeutic and diagnostic lumbar spine injections
• Ultrasound-guided injections
• X-ray-guided facet injections for back and neck pain
• X-ray-guided cervical epidural steroid injections to relieve neck, shoulder and arm pain
• X-ray-guided lumbar epidural steroid injections to relieve lower back and leg pain

Appointments for Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation are offered via facility-to-facility video visits, which reduce the need to travel far and enable patients to receive care close to home.

For a facility-to-facility video visit, patients arrive to the clinic and a nurse connects them with a specialist by live video. Our innovative technology uses a Bluetooth stethoscope, a USB otoscope and high definition cameras that can move and zoom in for a high-quality physical exam and personal conversation with the specialist.

Video appointments are currently offered at select locations in Wisconsin and Minnesota. Learn more about facility-to-facility video appointments.

Not all services and procedures are offered in this location. In certain cases, you may be connected to services at other Mayo Clinic Health System locations.