Dr. Edison Wong

Edison Wong, MD, medical director of the Burbank Rehabilitation Center, discusses therapeutic options, including physical therapy, medications, nonsurgical procedures and complementary and alternative medicine techniques to manage this growing epidemic.Free and open to the public.
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Edison Wong, MD, medical director of the Burbank Rehabilitation Center, discusses back pain and the most up-to-date treatment options, as well as practical tips on how to prevent back injuries or manage ongoing back pain when gardening and doing everyday household tasks.

"As a result of the swelling, nerve cells start dying," said Dr. Edison Wong, a nervous system specialist at the HealthAlliance Burbank Rehabilitation Center in Fitchburg.
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Wong said the top priority for patients in rehab is to maximize what he or she can do with efficient limbs, and how to compensate for the rest.

One of the best options for paralysis patients, Wong said, is custom controls such as wheelchairs that run with the touch of a finger or the mouth.

But getting the latest equipment depends on how much insurance companies will pay for.

"A lot of (the challenges) are psychological, about 90 percent," Wong said of issues facing paralysis patients.

Dr. Edison Wong, the medical director of the rehabilitation unit at HealthAlliance Hospital/Burbank said HealthAlliance has been studying the process of how stroke patients are treated for the past six months.

"We looked at how patients are treated for stroke when they come in, what's being done and whether we meet the standards," Wong said."So far, it will probably be possible to do that, but we still have a ways to go. ... It's not just the ER, but getting to a stroke floor and having a multi-disciplinary team of doctors."

Wong said doctors at HealthAlliance have given a few patients tPA, and those patients were then transported to a Boston hospital for evaluation.

Wong added the hospital has a neurologist who is always reachable by phone, and stroke patients often go to HealthAlliance for rehabilitation.

"We do have some of (the) pieces in place," Wong said.

Dr. Edison Wong, medical director of the Burbank Rehabilitation Center, discusses back pain and the most up-to-date treatment options.
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Dr. Edison Wong, medical director of the Burbank Rehabilitation Center, discusses therapeutic options.Free.
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Dr. Edison Wong, medical director of the Burbank Rehabilitation Center, discusses back pain and the most up-to-date treatment options.