Richard Radecki

About Richard Radecki

At the Medical Rehabilitation Center (MRC) of New Mexico, Dr. Richard T. Radecki, who is Board Certified in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and Pediatrics, provides comprehensive adult and pediatric physiatry care to his patients. His goal is to use non-surgical pain management practices and rehabilitation concepts to help his patients live more rewarding and active lives. Spanish speaking patients will be accommodated by Dr. Radecki, who is Spanish speaking, as well as by members of his staff. Upon request, he also provides medical/legal services including Independent Medical Evaluations, Impairment Ratings, Chart Reviews, Medicare set aside, Life Care Plans input, and Expert Witness testimony. He is certified to perform Independent Medical Evaluations by ABIME for the AMA Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment for 4th, 5th, 6th Editions. Special focus in clinic (and medicolegal areas) is pediatric brain injury including concussion assessment and management using evidence based norms. Other pediatric interest include spinal cord injury, birth injury, anoxic brain injury, limb deficiency, cerebral palsy, traumatic brain injury, and physiatric catastrophic injury care

Experience

1. Medical Director of Rehabilitative Services

   Shriners Children's

   Jan 2016 — Present · Tampa, FL, US

   I was hired to see children with 50% of the FTE for nonsurgical musculoskeletal challenges. I also was to write new programs inpatient and outpatient for children. I wrote and was accepted a mTBI outpatient program for high speed injuries and sports related injury. We have seen a large number of Children with concussion, mTBI, and complicated mTBI. This involves P.T, O.T. and Speech. It has 2.5 FTE dedicated to the program with vestibular, vision, and traditional rehab. I have also written research proposal for advanced MRI, stem cell transfusion, and vision assessment for children with mTBI based on solid evidence based literature. The program is busy and growing with a developing referral system that I have developed by school visits, teacher/parent group participation, and grant rounds to pediatric and ER training programs.Also written and submitted programs in pediatric chronic pain, feeding disorder, and traditional rehabilitation for pediatrics s/p hemisperectomy/rhizotomy, and orthopedic injury have been completed. Tying this picture together is a 16 bed in patient rehabilitation center to be submitted solidifying the programs submitted from inpatient to day hospital through outpatient. The programs are based on evidence based literature, cost effective, and comprehensive through a pediatric physiatric model with behavioral component when needed.

Education

• Northwestern University

  Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Pediatric and Adults Physiatry

  1986 — 1989

• Columbus Hospital

  Pediatrics

  1983 — 1986

• Medical College of Toledo

  Doctor of Medicine (M.D.)

  1979 — 1983

• The Ohio State University

  B.S. Zoology

  1972 — 1976