RECENT NEWS
CONGRATULATIONS
to Dr. Mulford and Dr. Skerker for being honored Top Doc by New Jersey Monthly and Castle Connolly Medical, and Dr. Rajesh Rao for receiving the Patients’ Choice recognition.
Prosthetics/Orthotics
A.R.M. Physicians have the necessary skills, training, experience, and expertise in Orthotics, and Prosthetics. Our doctors treat adults and children in need of orthotics and prosthetics and recommend the optimal devices necessary for rehabilitation of each patient.
HEALTH TIPS
Robert S. Skerker M.D.The period between receiving surgery and getting a prosthesis is crucial in amputee rehabilitation. Physical therapy is most helpful during this time as it shapes the residual limb and helps to improve circulation, increase efficiency, and enable proper prosthesis use.
Rehabilitation Medicine
More than 130,000 individuals undergo amputation of a limb each year and must deal with the associated physical, psychological, emotional and social impact of their amputation.
A.R.M. physicians are experts in amputee rehabilitation and offer care in Comprehensive Inpatient, Sub-acute Inpatient, and Outpatient Rehabilitation settings to help you maximize recovery, restore function and add quality to life.Our programs and services include:
• Individualized treatment plansOur goal is to make you as independent as possible as soon as possible, help you return to your normal, everyday routine and achieve your goals.
• Pre-prosthesis services such as wound management, healing, and skin care
• Strength, flexibility, range of motion and endurance exercises
• Gait training
• Coordination and balance training
• Improving activity tolerance
• Specialized prosthetist services to identify and treat issues associated with prosthetic use
• Patient and family education about use of prosthesis and stump care
Consult our Rehabilitation Doctors
Robert S. Skerker M.D.
Board Certification
- American Board of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Board Certification
- American Board of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation