
About Dr. Rashbaum
Dr. Rashbaum is a board-certified physiatrist (a physician who specializes in physical medicine and rehabilitation) at Rusk Rehabilitation at NYU Langone Health. He is a Clinical Professor of Rehabilitation Medicine at NYU Grossman School of Medicine.
Dr. Rashbaum lectured on tension myoneural syndrome on November 15, 2019 in San Antonio, Texas at the Annual Assembly of the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation.
He is a fellow of the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation as well as a member of the Medical Society of the State of New York and the New York County Medical Society.
Education and Training
1985
B.A.
Hofstra University,
Magna Cum Laude
1989
M.D.
SUNY Upstate Medical University
1993
Residency
NYU Rusk Institute,
Physical Medicine/Rehabilitation
Awards and Credentials
Castle Connolly, Ltd.
2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022
TOP DOCTOR NEW YORK METRO AREA
AMERICA'S MOST HONORED DOCTORS 2020
Top 1% of American Doctors by the American Registry
2022 Recipient
NEW YORK
SUPERDOCTORS
One of New York’s Favorite Physicians
VITALS PATIENTS' CHOICE AWARDS 2020
NYU Langone Health,
Rusk Rehabilitation
CHIEF OF TENSION
MYONEURAL SYNDROME
NEW YORK MAGAZINE'S TOP DOCTORS
New York, 2018, 2021 and 2022
CLINICAL PROFESSOR
Department of Rehabilitation Medicine
Select Publications

Psychosomatic Concepts in Chronic Pain
Ira G. Rashbaum, MD, John E. Sarno, MD
Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Refractory venous thrombus propagation in the setting of therapeutic anticoagulation
Traeger, Zahava Tzila; Rizzo, John-Ross; Rashbaum, Ira
American journal of physical medicine & rehabilitation. 2011 Oct. 90 (10): 873-874

Stroke
Eisenberg, Michal; Rashbaum, Ira
IN: Medical aspects of disability : a handbook for the rehabilitation professional. New York : Springer, c2011. 4th ed. p.549-567. (5797)

Motor planning poststroke; impairment in vector-coded reach plans
Rizzo, John-Ross; Hudson, Todd E; Abdou, Andrew; Rashbaum, Ira G; George, Ajax E; Raghavan, Preeti; Landy, Michael S
Physiological reports. 2015 Dec . 3 (12)
Certifications
License #4556