International Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
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Hillel M Finestone

Biography

 Dr. Hillel Finestone is a specialist in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, or physiatrist. He graduated from McGill Medical School and received Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation specialty training at the University of Ottawa and the University of Michigan. He is an Associate Professor in the Division of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the University of Ottawa. Dr. Finestone is the Director of Stroke Rehabilitation Research at Élisabeth Bruyère Hospital, Bruyère Continuing Care and an electromyographer at the Ottawa Hospital Rehabilitation Centre. Dr. Finestone's stroke research interests include 1) nutritional issues, 2) driving, 3) use of virtual reality training and 4) rehabilitation. He recently wrote a book, for health care professionals and laypersons, entitled "The Pain Detective, Every Ache Tells a Story" (published by Praeger ABC-Clio, 2009, Santa Barbara, CA). The book describes, in a clinical case format, the roles that psychological and social factors may play in healing and recovery from a painful musculoskeletal injury.

Research Interest

Stroke rehabilitation: 1) virtual reality exercise therapy in the stroke survivor, 2) driving and stroke, 3) nutrition and stroke, 4) technology use in the rehabilitation of the stroke survivor

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