Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
At Orthopedic Specialists of SW Florida, Allen C. Tafel, MD and Jason Cullen, MD are board-certified specialists in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PM&R), which is also known as Physiatry. As a physical medicine specialist, they are experts in the diagnosis and treatment of patients with chronic pain and disability caused by injury, illness or conditions involving any organ system.
Our doctors are focused on quality of life issues. Their goal is to restore his patients to pain-free, maximum function that was lost due to injury, illness or disabling conditions. They treat the whole person, not merely the problem area, to restore patients to productive lives. Because they utilize physical therapy pain management, all treatments are nonsurgical, via a comprehensive, personalized program, and are geared to enhance a patient’s abilities and performance while preventing further disability. Our services are also applied to sport injuries, through development of programs to help athletes to avoid injury.