Joseph M. Czerniecki, MD

Professor, Rehabilitation Medicine
Rehabilitation Physician
Co-Director, Preservation Amputation Care Team (PACT)
Associate Director for the VA Rehabilitation Research & Development Center (Limb Loss Prevention and Prosthetic Engineering)

Patient Care
Dr. Czerniecki's clinical interests include clinical gait analysis, rehabilitation of amputees, biomechanical effects of lower extremity prosthetics, and electrodiagnosis.

Research
His research interests include biomechanics of human motion, economy of human ambulation, prosthetic biomechanics, and pain as a secondary disability after amputation.

Teaching
Dr. Czerniecki is involved in graduate student education in mechanical engineering and bioengineering prosthetics and he teaches amputation rehabilitation for resident physicians in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation.

Training
Dr. Czerniecki earned his B.S. degree and his medical degree at the University of British Columbia. He earned his M.S. degree and completed both his research fellowship and residency in PM&R at the University of Washington.

Selected Publications:

Gitter AJ, Czerniecki JM, Weaver K. A reassessment of center of mass dynamics as a determinant of the metabolic inefficiency of above knee amputee ambulation. American Journal of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 74:332-338, 1995.

Ehde D, Czerniecki JM, Smith DG, Campbell KM, Edwards WT, Jensen MP, Robinson LR. Chronic Phantom Sensation, Phantom Pain, Residual Limb Pain, and other Regional Pain following Lower Limb. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 81:1039-44,2000.

Ehde D, Smith DG, Czerniecki JM, Campbell KM, Malchow DM, Robinson LR. Back Pain as a secondary disability in persons with lower limb amputations. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 82(6):731-4, 2001.

Klute GK, Kallfelz C, Czerniecki JM. Mechanical properties of prosthetic limbs: Adapting to the patient. Veterans Administration Journal of Rehabilitation Research and Development, 38:299-307, 2001.

Jensen MP, Ehde DM, Hoffman AJ, Patterson DR, Czerniecki JM, Robinson LR. Cognitions, Coping and Family Environment Predict Adjustment to Phantom Limb Pain. Pain, 95:133-142, 2002.