Areta Podhorodecki, M.D.

Dr. Areta Podhorodecki, an Australian, is a graduate of the University of Melbourne School of Medicine, class of 1980. She completed two years of medical residency in Australia and finished her post-graduate training in physical medicine and rehabilitation (PM&R) at St. Vincent’s Medical Center, New York. She served as an Attending Physiatrist for the International Center for the Disabled, New York from 1986 to 1990. In 1987, she became board certified in PM&R and a faculty member of Columbia Presbyterian Hospital. In 1989, she joined St. Vincent’s Department of Rehabilitation as an Attending Physician, where she continues to see patients to this day. In 1991, she became board certified in Electromyography and Sports Medicine in 2008.

Dr. Podhorodecki has been in private practice since 1988 and her areas of specialty include: hand, pregnancy pain syndromes, orthopedics, ergonomics, low back rehabilitation and BOTOX® injections for spasticity, headaches, dystonias and hyperhidrosis.

She presents widely at annual academic meetings and has numerous published articles, including "Overuse Syndromes in Sign Language Interpreters" (Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 1993) and a textbook chapter, "Exercise in the Elderly" (Clinical Geriatrics, Parthenon Publishing Group, 2003). She is currently involved in a research project, "Correlation of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome and Baby’s Sex in Pregnant Women". Dr. Podhorodecki is an Assistant Professor at New York Medical College and regularly gives lectures and tutorial to Rehabilitation, Neurology and Orthopedic residents and medical students.