Division of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation

Dinesh A. Kumbhare

 

Associate Clinical Professor, Division of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Department of Medicine

 

 

Education and Professional Standing

  • BSc, Dalhousie University, 1984
  • MD, Dalhousie University, 1987
  • Diplomat of the American Board of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 1993
  • MSc, McMaster University, Master of Health Sciences in Design Measurement and Evaluation, 1994
  • FRCP(C), McMaster University, 2005
  • Adjunct Faculty, Brain Body Institute and the Imaging Research Center since 2005.
  • Adjunct Faculty, Dept. Engineering since 2002
  • Head of Service, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, St. Joseph’s Health Care, Hamilton, since 1995

Research Interests

Research focuses on the improvement of measurements for physical medicine applications including imaging, biochemistry, electromyography, and examination techniques, and in the development of interdisciplinary (mind – body) assessment approaches.

Selected Publications

  1. Lord HL, Rosenfeld J, Volovich F, Kumbhare D, Parkinson W.  Determination of malondialdehhyde in human plasma by fully automated solid phase analytical derivation. J Chromatography, B; Annals of Technical Biomedical Life Sciences 2009;877:1292-8.

  2. Kumbhare D, Parkinson W, Dunlop RB, Richards C, Kerr C, Buckley N, Adachi J.  Injury measurement properties of serum interleukin-6 following lumbar decompression surgery.  Journal of Surgical Research, In Press.

  3. Kumbhare D, Parkinson W, Dunlop RB.  Validity of serum creatine kinase for measuring muscle injury in lumbar surgery.  Journal of Spinal Disorders and Techniques, 2008;21(1):49-54.

  4. Kumbhare D, Parkinson W, Dunlop B, Denkers M, Ryan E, Shah A, Bobbo R, Adachi J.  Biochemical measurement of muscle injury created by low back surgery. Clinical and Investigative Medicine, 2007;30(1):12-20.

  5. Mathoo, JMR, Becker, L, Kumbhare, DA, Adachi, JD, Therapeutic Advances in the Treatment of Osteoporosis. Expert Opinion on Therapeutic Patents, March 2007, 17(3), p277-285.

  6. Zaraiskaya, T, Kumbhare,  DA  , Noseworthy, N,  DiffusionTensor Imaging in Evaluation of Human Skeletal Muscle Injury , J Magn Reson Imaging, 24, 402, 2006

  7. Bobba R, Adachi J, Kumbhare DA, Parkinson W.  Tolerability of Different Bisphosphonate Dosing Regimens of Bisphosphonates for Both the Treatment of Osteoporosis and Malignant Bone Disease. Drug Safety, 2006; 29(12): 1133-52.

  8. Kumbhare  DA, Balsor B, Parkinson W, Harding P, Papaioannou A, Bedard M, Adachi J.  Measurement of cervical flexor endurance. Disability and Rehabilitation 2005;27(14):801-807.

  9. Papaioannou, A, Parkinson W, Ferko N, Probyn L, Ioannidis, Jurriaans E, Cox, G, Cook R, Kumbhare D, Adachi, JD.  Prevalence of Vertebral Fractures Among Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease in Canada, Osteoporosis International 2003;14:913-17.

  10. Kumbhare, D.A., Night splint treatment for plantar fasciitis, commentary on Probe R.A., et al. Clinical Journal of Sport Medicine Journal Club, 2000;10(3).