Chair/Professor VCU Dept of PMandR, Natl Director of PMandR for Dept of Vetrans Affairs
Physical Medicine/Rehab
Dr. David X. Cifu, MD
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David Cifu practices Physical Medicine/Rehab. He attended Boston University School of Medicine. Boston University School of Medicine is ranked 30 in research and 52 in primary care medicine He received 1 awards: "Regional Top Doctor". David X. Cifu, MD is a published doctor. He has 101 publications published. The most current publication "The prevalence of agitation and brain injury in skilled nursing facilities: a survey." He accepts Medicare payments and is listed with Medicare.gov.
Publications
- Rehabilitation of Moderate-to-Severe Traumatic Brain Injury.
- Structured interview for Mild Traumatic Brain Injury after military blast: interrater agreement and development of diagnostic algorithm.
- Guest Editorial: Botulinum toxin injection for bruxism associated with brain injury: Case report.
- Longitudinal Interactions Of Pain Symptoms And Posttraumatic Stress Disorder In U.S. Military Service Members Following Blast Exposure.
- Differential Eye Movements in Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Versus Normal Controls.
- Traumatic brain injury, posttraumatic stress disorder, and pain diagnoses in OIF/OEF/OND Veterans.
- Post-acute Brain Injury Urinary Signature: A New Resource for Molecular Diagnostics.
- Randomized, Sham-Controlled, Feasibility Trial of Hyperbaric Oxygen for Service Members With Postconcussion Syndrome: Cognitive and Psychomotor Outcomes 1 Week Postint...
- Hyperbaric oxygen for blast-related post-concussion Syndrome: 3-month outcomes.
- Do Rehospitalization Rates Differ Among Injury Severity Levels in the NIDRR Traumatic Brain Injury Model Systems Program?
- The Effect of Hyperbaric Oxygen on Persistent Postconcussion Symptoms.
- Development of a Traumatic Brain Injury Model System Within the Department of Veterans Affairs Polytrauma System of Care.
- Descriptive Characteristics and Rehabilitation Outcomes in Active Duty Military Personnel and Veterans With Disorders of Consciousness With Combat- and Noncombat-Relat...
- Neuromuscular electrical stimulation attenuates thigh skeletal muscles atrophy but not trunk muscles after spinal cord injury.
- Sensitivity and specificity of traumatic brain injury diagnosis codes in United States Department of Veterans Affairs administrative data.
- Rehabilitation of injured U.S. servicemember with traumatic brain injury, stroke, spinal cord injury, and bilateral amputations: A case report.
- Instilling a Research Culture in an Applied Clinical Setting.
- Sensorintegrative dysfunction underlying vestibular Disorders after traumatic brain injury: A review.
- Identification of Transient Altered Consciousness Induced by Military-Related Blast Exposure and Its Relation to Postconcussion Symptoms.
- Prevalence and Costs of Co-occurring Traumatic Brain Injury With and Without Psychiatric Disturbance and Pain Among Afghanistan and Iraq War Veteran VA Users.
- Prevalence of Dual Sensory Impairment and Its Association with Traumatic Brain Injury and Blast Exposure in OEF/OIF Veterans.
- Prevalence and characteristics of driving difficulties in Operation Iraqi Freedom/Operation Enduring Freedom combat returnees.
- Natural history of scoliosis in nonambulatory spastic tetraplegic cerebral Palsy.
- Recommendations for the use of common outcome measures in traumatic brain injury research.
- The history and evolution of traumatic brain injury rehabilitation in military service members and veterans.
- Psychiatric diagnoses among Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans screened for deployment-related traumatic brain injury.
- A pilot study of vitamin D and balance characteristics in middle-aged, healthy individuals.
- Health literacy among patients diagnosed with movement Disorders: a pilot study.
- Re: separating deployment-related traumatic brain injury and posttraumatic stress disorder in veterans: preliminary findings from the VA TBI screening program.
- Care of war veterans with mild traumatic brain injury.
- Effectiveness of levetiracetam in the treatment of lumbar radiculopathy: an open-label prospective cohort study.
- C1-2 steroid injection for crowned dens Syndrome.
- A review of osteoporosis: part I. Impact, pathophysiology, diagnosis and unique role of the physiatrist.
- Rehabilitation needs of combat-injured service members admitted to the VA Polytrauma Rehabilitation Centers: the role of PM&R in the care of wounded warriors.
- Prevalence of chronic pain, posttraumatic stress disorder, and persistent postconcussive symptoms in OIF/OEF veterans: polytrauma clinical triad.
- Minimizing the effect of TBI-related physical sequelae on vocational return.
- Traumatic brain injury: a comparison of inpatient functional outcomes between children and adults.
- Percutaneous sacroplasty for osteoporotic sacral insufficiency fractures: a prospective, multicenter, observational pilot study.
- Efficacy and safety of percutaneous sacroplasty for painful osteoporotic sacral insufficiency fractures: a prospective, multicenter trial.
- Spinal injury mimicking lumbosacral plexopathy.
- Functional outcomes from inpatient rehabilitation after traumatic brain injury: how do Hispanics fare?
- Team approach to diagnosis and management of traumatic brain injury and its comorbidities.
- Objectively assessing balance deficits after TBI: Role of computerized posturography.
- Program development and defining characteristics of returning military in a VA Polytrauma Network Site.
- Deep brain stimulation for dystonia: a meta-analysis.
- Job coaches: a workplace support.
- Caregiver distress in parkinsonism.
- A follow-up study of older adults with traumatic brain injury: taking into account decreasing length of stay.
- Efficacy of multidisciplinary treatment program on long-term outcomes of individuals with Parkinson's disease.
- Clinical elements that predict outcome after traumatic brain injury: a prospective multicenter recursive partitioning (decision-tree) analysis.
- Validating the Berg Balance Scale for patients with Parkinson's disease: a key to rehabilitation evaluation.
- Relationship between strength, balance, and swallowing deficits and outcome after traumatic brain injury: a multicenter analysis.
- Geriatric rehabilitation. 2. Physiatric approach to the older adult.
- Geriatric rehabilitation. 1. Social and economic implications of aging.
- Geriatric rehabilitation. 3. Physical medicine and rehabilitation interventions for common disabling Disorders.
- Geriatric rehabilitation. 4. Physical medicine and rehabilitation interventions for common age-related disorders and geriatric Syndromes.
- Geriatric rehabilitation. 5. The societal aspects of disability in the older adult.
- Sitting and standing tolerance in patients with chronic back pain: comparison between physician prediction and covert observation.
- Utility of head computed tomographic scans in functional decline late after traumatic brain injury.
- Medical procedures, complications, and outcomes for patients with spinal cord injury: A multicenter investigation comparing African Americans and whites.
- Timing, intensity, and duration of rehabilitation for hip fracture and stroke: report of a workshop at the National Center for Medical Rehabilitation Research.
- The relationship between therapy intensity and rehabilitative outcomes after traumatic brain injury: a multicenter analysis.
- Analyzing risk factors for late posttraumatic seizures: a prospective, multicenter investigation.
- Supported employment for persons with traumatic brain injury: a preliminary investigation of long-term follow-up costs and program efficiency.
- The association of early computed tomography scan findings and ambulation, self-care, and supervision needs at rehabilitation discharge and at 1 year after traumatic b...
- Incidence, risk factors, and outcomes of fecal incontinence after acute brain injury: findings from the Traumatic Brain Injury Model Systems national database.
- Ethnographic analysis of traumatic brain injury patients in the national Model Systems database.
- Blunt versus penetrating violent traumatic brain injury: frequency and factors associated with secondary conditions and complications.
- Acute predictors of return to employment after traumatic brain injury: a longitudinal follow-up.
- Effects of hyperbaric oxygen on eye tracking abnormalities in males after mild traumatic brain injury.
- Parkinson's disease and forced exercise: a preliminary study.
- Syringomyelia from complicated posttraumatic hydrocephalus.
- PM&R fellowship training.
- Potential driving issues in combat returnees.
- Return to driving within 5 years of moderate-severe traumatic brain injury.
- Feasibility of home-based functional electrical stimulation cycling: case report.
- Assessment and treatment of common persistent sequelae following blast induced mild traumatic brain injury.
- Predictors of extended rehabilitation length of stay after traumatic brain injury.
- Efficacy of a multidisciplinary treatment program on one-year outcomes of individuals with Parkinson''s disease.
- Rehabilitation and neurologic repair in Parkinson''s disease.
- A comparative study of outcomes and expenses following tetraplegia and paraplegia.
- A comparison of computerized dynamic posturography therapy to standard balance physical therapy in individuals with Parkinson''s disease: a pilot study.
- Traumatic brain injury and functional outcomes: does minority status matter?
- Impairment at rehabilitation admission and 1 year after moderate-to-severe traumatic brain injury: a prospective multi-centre analysis.
- Impact of minority status following traumatic spinal cord injury.
- Return to work after spinal cord injury: a review of recent research.
- Post-injury substance abuse among persons with brain injury and persons with spinal cord injury.
- Age-related outcomes in persons with spinal cord injury: a summary paper.
- The Loss Inventory: preliminary reliability and validity data for a new measure of emotional and cognitive responses to disability.
- The lighthouse strategy: Improving the functional status of patients with unilateral neglect after stroke and brain injury using a visual imagery intervention.
- Age-related differences in length of stays, hospitalization costs, and outcomes for an injury-matched sample of adults with paraplegia.
- The rehabilitative management of the traumatic brain injury patient with associated femoral neuropathy.
- Use of plasmid analysis to determine the source of bacterial invasion of the urinary tract.
- Ischaemic lumbosacral plexopathy in acute vascular compromise: case report.
- Neurological and skeletal outcomes in 113 patients with closed injuries to the cervical spinal cord.
- Stroke rehabilitation. 5. Stroke outcome.
- Stroke rehabilitation. 4. Psychologic and social implications.
- The prevalence of agitation and brain injury in skilled nursing facilities: a survey.
- Acute predictors of successful return to work 1 year after traumatic brain injury: a multicenter analysis.
- Deep venous thrombosis: incidence on admission to a brain injury rehabilitation program.
Schools
Boston Univ Sch Of Med
Baylor College Of Med
Procedures Preformed
- EMG (Electromyography)
Conditions Treated
- Brachial Plexus Palsy
- Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
- Gait Abnormality
- Peripheral Nerve Disorders
Doctors Specialties
- Physical Medicine/Rehab
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- Regional Top Doctor
Education
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Baylor College of Medicine -
Boston University School of Medicine
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| National Provider Identifier [NPI] | 1801831995 |
| Last Name Of The Provider | CIFU |
| First Name Of The Provider | DAVID |
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