What is a Rheumatologist
Rheumatologists are internal medicine doctors who specialize in musculoskeletal and autoimmune diseases providing diagnosis and therapy that does not include surgery.
Rheumatologist training
Rheumatologists must complete four years of medical school followed by three years of residency in internal medicine. After residency they must complete additional two years fellowship in Rheumatology.
What We treat
- Achilles Tendinitis
- Adhesive Capsulitis
- Ankylosing Spondylitis
- Antiphospholipid Syndrome (APS)
- Arthritis
- Autoimmune Diseases
- Behcet's disease
- Bleeding Disorders
- Bone Disorders
- Bursitis
- Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
- Chondrocalcinosis
- Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
- Chronic Neck Pain
- Chronic back pain
- Chronic pain
- Cryoglobulinemia
- Cutaneous Lupus Erythematosus
- Degenerative Disc Disease
- De Quervain's Disease
- Dermatomyositis
- Difficulty With Walking
- Dry Eyes
- Dupuytren's Contracture
- Elbow disorder
- Elbow Injuries
- Enthesopathy of Hip (incl. Trochanteric Bursitis)
- Fever
- Gout
- Hidradenitis supprativa (HS)
- Immune Thrombocytopenic Purpura (ITP)
- Intervertebral Disc Disease
- Joint Pain
- Knee Disorders
- Lateral and Medial Epicondylitis (Tennis and Golf Elbow)
- Limb Cramp
- Limb Pain
- Limb Swelling
- Low Back Pain
- Lupus (SLE)
- Malaise and Fatigue
- Myscle cramps/spasms
- Muscle Weakness
- Osteoarthritis
- Osteoarthritis of Ankle and Foot
- Osteoarthritis of Hand or Wrist
- Osteoarthritis of Hands
- Osteoarthritis of Hip
- Osteoarthritis of Hip and Thigh
- Osteoarthritis of knee
- osteoarthritis of shoulder
- osteopenia
- osteoporosis
- Patellofemoral Pain Syndrome or Knee Pain
- Plantar Fasciitis
- Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR)
- Polymyositis
- Psoriatic Arthritis
- Pulmonary Disease
- Purpura
- Pyogenic Arthritis
- Raynaud's Disease
- Restless leg syndrome
- Rheumatoid Arthritis
- Sarcoidosis
- SAPHO syndrome
- Shoulder Disorders
- Shoulder Impingement Syndrome
- Sjögren's Syndrome
- Spinal stenosis
- Spine Disorders
- Spondylolisthesis
- Spondylitis
- Spondylosis
- Still's Disease
- Systemic Sclerosis
- Systemic vasculitis
- Temporal Arteritis
- Trigger Finger
- Vascular Disease
- Vasculitis
- Wegener's Granulomatosis