Rheumatology
The department treats all types of rheumatic diseases in adults and children. Patients with rheumatic disease typically experience symptoms such as:
- Aching
- Back pain
- Inflammation
- Pain
- Stiffness
- Swelling
- Weakness
The Sansum Clinic Advantage
The department offers the advantage of access to the advantage of access to the full range of Sansum Clinic resources, including:
- convenient locations throughout Santa Barbara County
- outstanding physician care and nursing care
- choice of numerous primary care providers and specialty care providers
- prompt access to specialty care and urgent care services
- coordinated appointment scheduling
- physicians' desktop access to our state-of-the-art digital x-ray results
- comprehensive laboratory services
- unified medical records (e.g. charts, history)
In addition, the members of the department are distinguished by their contributions to the practice of rheumatology. They advance the field through ongoing clinical research, disseminate new breakthroughs as public speakers in the community, and steer the development of the next generation of rheumatologists through teaching and supervising medical residents.
Conditions Treated
- Anklosing spondylitis
- Autoimmune disease
- Bursitis
- Gout
- Inflammatory muscle disease
- Inflammatory vascular disease
- Lyme disease
- Osteoarthritis
- Osteoporosis
- Paget's disease
- Polymyalgia rheumatica
- Psoriatic arthritis
- Reiter's syndrome
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Sclerodema
- Sjogren's syndrome
- Systemic lupus
- Tendonitis
- Vasculitis
Additional Services
- Clinical densitometry for osteoporosis
- Spinal injections/epidurals
- Sports medicine