MedStar Health News

MedStar NRH is one of 60 sites nationwide participating in the largest clinical trial of its kind to test the use of stem cells to restore motor function in stroke patients. The large double-blind, randomized study is based on an initial small investigation conducted at Stanford University that demonstrated results described as “stunning.”

U.S. Paralympics, a division of the United States Olympic Committee, today announced that MedStar National Rehabilitation Network has been recognized as a Bronze level club as a part of the Paralympic Sport Club Excellence Program.

The frigid predictions warn of a colder than average winter and more snow than last year. This white wonderland is an inevitable consequence of winter in the D.C. and Baltimore region—and so is the pain that can come from digging out.

CARF conducted its triennial accreditation survey at MedStar National Rehabilitation Hospital in October 2016. Five surveyors from different rehabilitation facilities from across the country reviewed our overall inpatient rehabilitation program for adults and children, as well as four specialty programs which included amputation, stroke, brain injury, and spinal cord injury and disease.

Eric Wisotzky, MD, chief of the Division of Rehabilitation Medicine, and the director of Cancer Rehabilitation with MedStar Health Physical Therapy and Nicole Hanrahan, MD, Cancer Rehabilitation fellow with MedStar NRH recently published a new article titled “Deconstructing Postmastectomy Syndrome” in the Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Clinics of North America Journal.

MedStar NRH free adaptive exercise classes have crossed the Potomac and are now available at a new Fairfax location on Chain Bridge Rd.