Dr. Alexsandra Alderman This is Me

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1. 1. Healthy Living - Unknown Specialty - Spring / Summer 2006

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   Published on: 2/23/2005   Last Visited: 6/21/2006

   "I take an hour and 15 minutes for each of my visits," says Dr. Alexsandra Alderman, a pediatric physiatrist at St. Francis Hospital in Poughkeepsie. "I don't just write a prescription and say, 'Oh, do physical therapy.' I'll talk to therapists about what should get done. When I do an evaluation, I'll have a physical therapist and occupational therapist sit in, and maybe even a teacher, social worker, speech therapist, and psychologist." She explains, "The physiatrist has studied what all these therapies and modalities are about and what they do.
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   Dr. Alderman agrees: "We are more aware of the various modalities that are out there and other ways of approaching things." She adds, "The physiatrist can help you avoid the drug route also."
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   Says Alderman, "It's a small specialty, and there aren't that many physiatrists around because it's not dramatic medicine."