“My goal is to assist people to live healthy and active lives – no matter what their lifestyle, age, or fitness level.” Dr. Stilp.
Sonja Stilp, MD offers clinics at St. Vincent Health in Leadville. She is fellowship-trained in interventional spine and procedural orthopedics. Dr. Stilp’s focus is on non-operative management of orthopedic and spine care with an integrative and comprehensive approach.
While Dr. Stilp offers a broad scope of regenerative medicine, she brings essential services to Leadville and Lake County such as pain management including injections and medical management, strengthening with injury treatment and prevention.
As an athlete and lover of the mountains, Sonja Stilp, MD has an affinity for Leadville and caring for people in rural areas. She considers it a privilege to bring her expertise from 20 years in practice to the central mountains of Colorado.
What is a Physiatry?
Physiatry is the medical specialty that emphasizes the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of people disabled by disease, disorder or injury.
It is one of the newer areas of medicine that manages a diversity of conditions involving the nervous and musculoskeletal systems and focuses on function, independence and quality of life.
Physiatry, also referred to as Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, provides integrated, multidisciplinary care aimed at recovery of the whole person by addressing the individual’s physical, emotional, medical, vocational and social needs. Physiatry is unique among medical specialties in that its area of expertise is the functioning of the whole patient, as compared with a focus on an organ system or systems. A doctor who specializes in physical medicine and rehabilitation is called a physiatrist. Physiatrists can be medical doctors (MDs) or doctors of osteopathic medicine (DO) and practice in a variety of clinical settings, including inpatient and outpatient facilities.