This week, UPMC offered a hard hat tour for Pittsburgh-based media to observe the construction progress of the UPMC Mercy Pavilion. The nine-story, 410,000-square-foot tower… Read more
Category: rehabilitation
Few Doctors Follow Best Practices for Treating Low Back Pain, Even with Reminders, New Study Finds
Up to 80 percent of adults will experience one episode of acute low back pain (LBP) in their lifetime and many of those people will… Read more
Program for Spine Health: Finding a Solution to a Problem that doesn’t have a Fix
The goal of the UPMC Program for Spine Health, founded by Dr. Christopher Standaert, is to help patients with chronic back pain by avoiding a… Read more
UPMC’s Brain Injury Medicine Service Helps Patients Regain Their Lives
It was a regular day during Pittsburgh’s sweltering summer of 2017. Bill Norton was heading outside when he called his wife, Amy, to complain of… Read more
UPMC Launches COVID-19 Rehab Program in Italy
Modeled after a clinic UPMC developed in Pittsburgh, the Post-COVID 19 Rehabilitation Program in Italy will give patients in the Tuscany region individualized, integrated care… Read more