Michael Chu, DO

Description

Michael Chu, DO, earned his medical degree from Western University of Health Sciences and completed his residency at Tufts Medical Center. He received his undergraduate degree in bioengineering from University of California Berkeley and is board certified in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. Dr. Chu has been practicing medicine for 7 years. Prior to joining Piedmont, Dr. Chu was practicing at Kaiser Permanente. Dr. Chu specializes in spine and sports conditions that include neck and low back pain, tailbone pain, joint pain, and musculoskeletal pain. Treatments include variety of procedures which include: Epidural steroid injections, Facet injections and medial branch blocks, Radiofrequency ablations, Spinal cord stimulator trial, Shoulder, hip, and knee injections including genicular nerve radiofrequency ablation, Sacroiliac joint injections and radiofrequency ablation, and Piriformis injections. Dr. Chu has a special interest in partnering with people to overcome their pain so they can live the lives they want to live. In his spare time, Dr. Chu enjoys spending time with his family. He enjoys hiking, camping, fishing, basketball and mountain biking. Dr. Chu is accepting new patients and welcomes most major insurance plans.

Keywords cervical epidural steroid injections, dynamic activities for rehabilitative therapy, adaptive sports evaluation, acute sports related back pain, functional movement disorders, primary spine care, sports medicine injuries, lumbar spine injection, cervical spine injection, ankle rehabilitation, amplified musculoskeletal pain syndrome rehabilitation, cervical spine injection evaluation, lumbar spine injection evaluation, lumbar spine evaluation, cervical spine evaluation, gait therapies, cervical spondylosis, lumbar spondylosis, back injury, cervical myelopathy, coccydynia, lumbar spinal stenosis, spine injection, functional pain disorders, sports related injury, spinal stenosis, late effect of spinal cord injury, elbow injection, disability evaluation, cortisone injection, cervical spinal stenosis, carpal tunnel syndrome (cts), cancer pain, back muscle injury, ankle pain, spine pain, neck rehabilitation, radiofrequency denervation, lumbar spine epidural steroid injection, thoracic spine epidural steroid injection, genicular nerve blocks, ganglion of impar blocks, ilioinguinal nerve blocks, lumbar sympathetic blocks, stellate ganglion blocks, medial branch blocks, musculoskeletal pain, exercise prescription, long thoracic neuropathy, patellofemoral arthritis, musculoskeletal injection, arm steroid injection, adolescent disc herniation, hip sprain, viscosupplementation, persistent pain after orthopedic surgery, neck sprain, cervical spine steroid injection, spinal cord injury rehabilitation, gait analysis, ultrasound guided arthrocentesis, ulnar neuropathy, bursitis of the hip, trigger point injection, thoracic herniated disc, sports injury rehabilitation, spondylosis, spondylolisthesis, spinal cord stimulator, shoulder injection, scoliosis, sciatica, sacroiliac (si) steroid injection, rotator cuff impingement, reflex sympathetic dystrophy, radiofrequency rhizotomy, postherpetic neuralgia, post laminectomy syndrome, post thoracotomy chest pain, post radiation pain, piriformis syndrome, peripheral neuropathy, paresthesia, pain management, pain clinic, hip osteoarthritis, occipital neuralgia, occipital nerve block, neuropathy, neuromodulation, neuritis, neuralgia, nerve compression syndrome, nerve block, neck pain, meralgia paresthetica, lumbosacral radiculopathy, lesions of sciatic nerve, kyphosis, knee pain.