Dr. Gary Wang
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Buffalo, NY
42 years experience male
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Buffalo, NY
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Doctors may have more than one area of specialty interest. Board certification in a specialty area means the doctor has completed formal training and has practice experience in that specialty, and has passed the certification examination from the corresponding accredited medical specialty board.
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
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A 34-year-old member asked:
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Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation 42 years experience
Erection. : Your hormones work. It is natural and normal. Concentrate on your class instead of your penis.
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Tampon and swim: Usually, during menstrual period you should avoid swim. However, if you still like to do, you need change the tampon after swim. It's normal the tampo... Read More
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A 47-year-old member asked:
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Percautions: 1. Keep functional range of motion of the joints above the prosthesis.
2. Local skin care. Keep no breakdown.
3. Appropriate distribution of weigh... Read More
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A 48-year-old female asked:
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anxiety: It is very common for depress/anxiety disorder people. You can consult with your family doctor of psychiatrist to obtain appropriate medical help.
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ear neck pain. : Usually not. The symptoms seems like cervical nerve root irritated.
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Cyclobenzaprine: Cyclobenzaprine may numb you brain, temporally feeling relax. It has obvious side effects if you use without medical indication. High itself is a abn... Read More
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A 33-year-old member asked:
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Headache with sex: Over respiration during exertion or exciting status might induce headache. You can try to wear a mouth mask or breath through pillow to minimize the s... Read More
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A 42-year-old member asked:
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Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation 42 years experience
Muscle injury. : Acute stage, usually with 24 hours or slightly more, use ice pad. After acute stage, use warm pad.
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A 46-year-old member asked:
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Neck pain: 1. Temperature modality used to relax muscle and decrease pain. Electric stimulants, tens unit use and altrasound application belong to this.
2. Pa... Read More
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A 44-year-old member asked:
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Disadvantage : 1. Psychologically you still know it's artificial.
2. Make you look like and function like more normal, whenever you do not want to.
3, limb stump... Read More
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A 34-year-old member asked:
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Erection: Calcium channel blocker usually might have side effects. However, Norvasc (amlodipine) is a slow action medication and usually less erectile side effe... Read More
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A 33-year-old female asked:
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Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation 42 years experience
Neck pain: It should be avoidable. Check your vit.D level and your autoimmune status to rule out rheumatoid. If there is positive finding, seek appropriate physi... Read More
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A 32-year-old member asked:
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Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation 42 years experience
Neither: Sciatica is type of pain due to sciatic nerve irritated.
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A 35-year-old member asked:
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yes: Yes, but need be careful. Avoid heavy deep massage.
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A 18-year-old female asked:
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lower abdominal pain: Many etiologies may induce the symptoms, such as stimulants over appendix, ovary, or cervix. It is also very common to those who just become sexually ... Read More
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A 38-year-old member asked:
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Scalp paresthesia: Usually is form impingement over your greater occipital nerve at the junction of head and neck. Did you rest you head over sofa armrest prolonged ti... Read More
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A 32-year-old member asked:
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Tremor: There are tow type tremors, attention tremor or rest tremor. Attention tremor is the tremor when to use your hand or pay attention to your hand move... Read More
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A 35-year-old member asked:
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Nerve damage heal: There are different type of nerve damage. If it is just demyelinating injury (damage the peel of nerve), it would need a few weeks to heal after the e... Read More
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Rotator cuff : This is usually a sign of rotator cuff tendon impinged at the shoulder.
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A 38-year-old male asked:
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Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation 42 years experience
MRI: For soft tissue, MRI is much better. However, disk bulge does not mean you have to have pain. It is a very common finding for most population of more ... Read More
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A 45-year-old member asked:
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Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation 42 years experience
Indication: Usually:
1, unstable spine column bone or disks causing spinal cord impinged
2. Back pain due to unstable spine column bone or disks after appropr... Read More
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A 38-year-old member asked:
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Tail bone pain: Are you sure the pain is from ovarian cyst? You need see your ob-gyn.
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Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation 42 years experience
Chiara malformation: Neck pain is one of the most common symptoms. However, i suggest you avoid unnecessary narcotic pain medication prolonged using, which would induce yo... Read More
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A 42-year-old member asked:
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Keloid scar: Silicon patch top application is one of the very effective ways to treat.
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A female asked:
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Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation 42 years experience
Possible : For your age, it is highly possible hypoglycemia after you walk due to not eat enough. However, you need see your family doctor.
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A 63-year-old male asked:
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Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation 42 years experience
Sciatica pain: Sciatica may be induced by arthritis. A lot of case of "sciatica" are si joint pain. At night, decreased activity and stimulants, decreased endorphin... Read More
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A 22-year-old female asked:
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headache with stand: You have not tell your blood pressure results. You need check it both while you lying down and standing up.
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Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation 42 years experience
rectal polyp: Usually not hard. If something hard there, your should see a doctor to rule out cancer.
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apondylosis: It most probably age related degenerative process. Local temperature modality treatment and exercise will be helpful. Avoid short acting narcotics pr... Read More
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Yes: Fishing smell is normal small of semen. However, if you find the smell just became stronger than usual, you hand your husband should to check if there... Read More
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Head shaking: You need to see a neurologist to rule out benign tremor or early stage of parkinson's disease or other movement disorder.
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foot hot feeling: It is usually sensory nerve function disorder. The location of the symptom should be distribution of peroneal nerve. The most common etiology might be... Read More
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RSD and Fatigue. : Usually, inappropriate pain related medication prolonged use would induce chronic fatigue. However, anti-depressant medications might improve your pai... Read More
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A 21-year-old female asked:
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Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation 42 years experience
Possible: Local puncture site inflammatory process might induce referral pain to make you feel the pain over hip.
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A 22-year-old female asked:
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pituitary tumor: Any tumor or lesion in brain may develop symptoms of depression. It is not a misdiagnosis, if your doctor just found you have depression. It should b... Read More
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A 26-year-old female asked:
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Back pain.: You should have a thorough examination and evaluation by your physician. Anti-anxiety/depression medication, such as celexa, Remeron (mirtazapine) mig... Read More
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Abilify (aripiprazole): Large dose might. However, it is a very efficient medication for mood stabilization and some psychiatric disorder. You need listen to your doctors wh... Read More
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A 23-year-old female asked:
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Mid back pain : This is very common if you have nerve root irritated. A rib fracture or trauma irritate the nerve nearby, or herpes dermatitis may also induce such ki... Read More
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Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation 42 years experience
Avoid picking: Avoid picking. The more you picking the more local trauma you might induce. You may need to see a ENT to see if there is something growing inside.
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Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation 42 years experience
Rest: Rest in bed for 1 day. Drink a lot water. If the symptoms get worse, call your primary doctor.
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Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation 42 years experience
Not absolutely. : Keloids diagnosis dose not mean having to disabled.
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Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation 42 years experience
Zoloft (sertraline): Usually this kind bone pain is not side effects of zoloft (sertraline). Actually, ssri, such as zoloft (sertraline) might improve your pain tolerance ... Read More
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Might: Some people did recovered but it should be not real amnesia.
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headache: It is highly possible your have cervical nerve root irritated, especially at c3-4 level.
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yes. : During sex, you breath rapidly. Which may induced extra c02 breath out and you may become alkalosis and cause your feel tingling and numbness of your ... Read More
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Knee pain: You may have fluid in side your knee. The most relaxed position of knee is on half bending. If you lying with knee straight, the pressure inside knee ... Read More
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Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation 42 years experience
Frozen shoulder. : Best analgesic way is moisture heating pad local apply for 15 minutes and active and passive range of motion routinely. If acute pain may apply icy pa... Read More
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Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation 42 years experience
Muscle spasm: It is possible. Local icy pad application, nearby area deep muscle massage might be helpful.
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Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation 42 years experience
Stomach acid. : During night vagus nerve more active and your stomach makes more acid. The same time the sphincter between your esophagus and stomach more relax. That... Read More
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Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation 42 years experience
Tremor, wobbly: Do you take any medications or street drugs, alcohol, marijuana? Such kind symptoms are often associate with medication, especially illicit drug use.... Read More
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This was very helpful. Thanks! Thanks Doctor. I think I will have to see a specialist about it. I don't like the way it feels and it become frequent of late. Thanks very much.
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Thank you, your answer was very helpful! Doc only checked while I was sitting. I will ask her to try your way.
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Thank you, your answer was very helpful! My son has numbness in legs and burning when he eats in chest 90 kyph
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