Professor, Rehabilitation Medicine, Jefferson Medical College-Thos Jefferson Univ

Physical Medicine/Rehab

Ralph J. Marino works in the field of Physical Medicine/Rehab. He researched medicine at Jefferson Medical College. He has 3 awards "Philadelphia Magazine", "America's Top Doctors" and "Super Doctor". Ralph Marino is a published MD as well. He has 18 publications published. The latest was: Patterns of Sacral Sparing Components on Neurological Recovery in Newly Injured Persons with Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury. Ralph Marino is registered with Medicare and accepts Medicare payments.

Publications

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• Patterns of Sacral Sparing Components on Neurological Recovery in Newly Injured Persons with Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury.
• Responsiveness and concurrent validity of the revised Capabilities of Upper Extremity-Questionnaire (CUE-Q) in patients with acute tetraplegia.
• The Walking Index for Spinal Cord Injury (WISCI/WISCI II): nature, metric properties, use and misuse.
• Development of an Objective Test of Upper-Limb Function in Tetraplegia: The Capabilities of Upper Extremity Test.
• The impact of sacral sensory sparing in motor complete Spinal cord injury.
• Upper- and lower-extremity motor recovery after traumatic cervical Spinal cord injury: an update from the national Spinal cord injury database.
• The reproducibility and convergent validity of the Walking Index for Spinal Cord Injury (WISCI) in Chronic spinal cord injury.
• Walking index for Spinal cord injury version 2 (WISCI-II) with repeatability of the 10-m walk time: Inter- and intrarater reliabilities.
• Reliability and repeatability of the motor and sensory examination of the international standards for neurological classification of Spinal cord injury.
• The assessment of walking capacity using the walking index for Spinal cord injury: self-selected versus maximal levels.
• Domains of outcomes in Spinal cord injury for clinical trials to improve neurological function.
• Spinal cord injury clinical trials for neurologic restoration: improving care through clinical research.
• Neurological and functional capacity outcome measures: essential to Spinal cord injury clinical trials.
• Metric properties of the ASIA motor score: subscales improve correlation with functional activities.
• Validity of the walking scale for Spinal cord injury and other domains of function in a multicenter clinical trial.
• International standards for neurological classification of Spinal cord injury.
• Assessment of autonomic dysfunction following Spinal cord injury: rationale for additions to International Standards for Neurological Assessment.

Schools

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• Thomas Jefferson University

• Roanoke Meml Hospital

• Thos Jeff University Hospital

Procedures Preformed

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• EMG (Electromyography)

Conditions Treated

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• Anterior Horn Disease
• Arthritis
• Back Pain
• Brachial Plexus Palsy
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Doctors Specialties

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• Spinal Cord Injury Medicine
• Physical Medicine/Rehab

Accepted Insurances

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• Aetna HMO
• Choice Plus POS II
• Personal Choice PPO
• Regional Pref Network EPO
• Regional Pref Network HMO
• Regional Pref Network HMO+
• Regional Pref Network POS+
• Regional Pref Network PPO
• Blue Card PPO
• Cigna HMO
• Cigna PPO
• Great West Healthcare-Cigna PPO
• Open Access Plus
• Commercial Insurance Company
• CoreSource
• Coventry Health America PPO
• Coventry Health Care of Delaware PPO
• HealthPartners
• Community Blue PPO
• Direct Access
• Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield HMO
• Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield POS
• Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield PPO
• Choice Care PPO
• Keystone Health Plan East HMO
• Medicare MCR
• MultiPlan PPO
• PHCS Network PPO
• QualCare HMO
• QualCare PPO
• Choice Plus POS
• Navigate HMO
• Navigate POS
• Options PPO
• United Healthcare

Awards

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• Philadelphia Magazine
• America's Top Doctors
• Super Doctor

Education

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• Thomas Jefferson University
• Jefferson Medical College

Hospital

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• Thomas Jefferson University Hospital

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