Education
Medical school
Dr. Roche attended Ponce School of Medicine and graduated in
1992 (30 years ago).
About Me
Dr. Roche works at Medstar Medical Group Ii LLC, which has 1221 other health providers.
- Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
- Interventional Pain Management
- 30+ years
- Male
- 1871537688
As a physical medicine and rehabilitation and interventional pain management, Dr. Roche may see patients with the following conditions. Please check with Dr. Roche what conditions he treats. Dr. Roche may treat additional conditions not listed.
- Activities of daily living
- Arthritis
- Balance issues
- Brain damage
- Bursitis
- Cancer pain
- Car accident injuries
- Carpal tunnel syndrome
- Degenerative disc disease
- Facet arthropathy
Specialties
Dr. Roche is a physical medicine and rehabilitation and interventional pain management. His primary specialty is physical medicine and rehabilitation.
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Physical medicine and rehabilitation, also known as physiatry, is a branch of medicine that aims to enhance and restore functional ability and quality of life to people with physical impairments or disabilities. This can include conditions such as spinal cord injuries, brain injuries, strokes, as well as pain or disability due to muscle, ligament or nerve damage. A physician having completed training in this field may be referred to as a physiatrist.
Interventional Pain Management
Interventional pain management or interventional pain medicine is a medical subspecialty defined by the National Uniforms Claims Committee (NUCC) as, "invasive interventions such as the discipline of medicine devoted to the diagnosis and treatment of pain related disorders principally with the application of interventional techniques in managing sub acute, chronic, persistent, and intractable pain, independently or in conjunction with other modalities of treatment."