Located in Portland, OR
503-234-1531
Joan Takacs, D. O.
Learn More About Dr. Joan Takacs, D.O.
The Northwest Osteopathic Medical Foundation, Announces Lifetime Achievement Awardees Every year, the Foundation receives nominations from DOs around the country for a lifetime achievement award. This year, this coveted award goes to John and Joan Takacs
Live Your Life Fully With Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Dr. Joan Takacs, D.O. grew up in a strong Osteopathic Tradition. Her grandfather was a student of A.T. Still, MD., the founder of Osteopathy, and her father studied with Wm. Garner Sutherland, DO developer of Cranial Osteopathy. See the links: www.osteopathic.org
and http://www.cranialacademy.org/.
After medical school and a rotating internship, Dr. Joan joined the faculty as an instructor in the Osteopathic Manipulation department at Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine with the responsibility of teaching and managing general practice and ER shifts. In 1983, Dr. Joan entered her Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PM&R) residency.
Dr. Joan came to Portland in 1986 after completing her residency in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PM&R) at the University of Missouri, in Columbia, to develop and run (for 4 years) the inpatient rehabilitation unit in Eastmoreland Hospital. During that time, she also had her outpatient practice, primarily in physical medicine, and performed assessments and IMEs for Northwest Pain Center. As a Physiatrist, she had performed countless EMG / NCVs and has recently begun using ultrasound for diagnosis of musculoskeletal injuries and ultrasound guided injections. For demonstration video on tests, you can watch the following:
Dr. Joan was discouraged with the fact that the patients often failed to improve from musculoskeletal pain. This prompted her to join Geoff Baum, DO, orthopedic surgery, and John Takacs, DO to develop Synergy Rehabilitation, a multidisciplinary outpatient program. The economics did not support a physician-owned PT, MSW, RN clinic and they were forced to let this go after 3 years.
Still, on a quest to find a better treatment success with musculoskeletal injuries, her interest was piqued at a Waldorf teacher and doctor course on the movement concept of Spacial Dynamics® www.spacialdynamics.com. She is extremely impressed with the benefits of this modality. She invested the time to do the 5-year training (4 weeks spread throughout each year) and graduated from the SDI institute in 1999. She has dual board certification by the MD and DO Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation boards. For information on the practice scope of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PM&R), check out the websites of these organizations at www.aocpmr.com
and www.aapmr.org.
Dr. Joan has been specializing in worker’s compensation injuries and motor vehicle injuries for over 20 years. She is blessed to have a wonderful treatment team at the clinic. The primary care focus of her physician colleagues helps to keep her awareness of new treatments in primary care. Dr. Joan is board certified in Anthroposophical Medicine and provides this holistic extension of medicine for those adults and children requesting that approach (www.paam.net).
Dr. Joan was always a student of movement. She is a potter and a student of classical guitar.
Schedule an Appointment During Office Hours
Our office is open Monday through Thursday from 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM and on Friday from 8:00 AM to 12:00 PM; call to make an appointment. All appointments, not canceled at least 24 hours in advance for our Exercise Therapists, will be charged $60.00.
At Takacs Clinic, we conduct EMG / NCV Information (electromyography / nerve conduction velocity).
Benefits of EMG:
- Find diseases that damage muscle tissue, nerves, or the junctions between nerve and muscle
- Find the cause of weakness, paralysis, or muscle twitching
Reasons to conduct NCV study:
- Find damage to the peripheral nervous system
- This test is used to diagnose carpal tunnel syndrome
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