Conditions we treat at the Spinal Cord Injury Program
The MedStar NRH Spinal Cord Injury and Disorders Program provides comprehensive care for adults older than 18 years old.
Children with spinal cord injury and illness are treated at the National Center for Children’s Rehabilitation at MedStar NRH. To learn more about the pediatric program, click here.
We treat patients with a wide-variety of spinal cord injury and diseases, including:
- Traumatic Spinal cord injury
- Spinal cord disease
- Spinal stenosis with myelopathy
- Postoperative spine surgery
- Multiple sclerosis
- Transverse myelitis
- Gillian Barre Syndrome
- Spine bifida
- Spinal cord tumors
- Post-surgical care of pressure wound closure
- Long-term complications after spinal cord injury
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Make an Appointment
For more information about the Spinal Cord Program at MedStar National Rehabilitation Hospital, please call
202-877-1152
Specialists
- Pamela Ballard, MD
Attending - Spinal Cord Program - Erika Gosai, MD
Attending -Spinal Cord Program - Suzanne Groah, MD
Director- Spinal Cord Program and Research - Esperanza Guillermety, MD
Attending - Outpatient Clinic - Richard Zorowitz, MD
Attending - Outpatient Clinic