Sports Medicine and Pain Management
Got Pain?
Visiting Specialist Sonja Stilp, MD offers pain management, sports medicine and regenerative medicine clinics at St. Vincent Health. Dr. Stilp is fellowship-trained in interventional spine and procedural orthopedics. Her focus is on non-operative management of orthopedic and spine care with an integrative and comprehensive approach.
Appointments are available at St. Vincent Health Specialty Clinics. Call 719-486-7166 for information or to schedule. Specialty Clinics are located at 822 W. 4th Street Leadville, Colorado.
While Dr. Stilp offers a broad scope of regenerative medicine, she brings essential services to Leadville and Lake County such as pain management including spine and orthopedic injections, medical management, and injury treatment and prevention.
The focus of care:
- Non-operative management of orthopedic and spine care
- An integrative and comprehensive approach
- Pain management including injections and medical management
- Strength and conditioning
- Injury treatment and prevention
What is Physiatry?
Physiatry is the medical specialty that emphasizes the prevention, diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation of people disabled by disease, disorder or injury.
It is one of the newer areas of medicine that manages a diversity of conditions involving the nervous and musculoskeletal systems, and focuses on function, independence and quality of life.
Physiatry, also referred to as Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, provides integrated, multidisciplinary care aimed at recovery of the whole person by addressing the individual’s physical, emotional, medical, vocational and social needs. Physiatry is unique among medical specialties in that its area of expertise is the functioning of the whole patient, as compared with a focus on an organ system or systems. A doctor who specializes in physical medicine and rehabilitation is called a physiatrist. Physiatrists can be medical doctors (MD) or doctors of osteopathic medicine (DO) and practice in a variety of clinical settings, including inpatient and outpatient facilities.
