Professor, Family Medicine, UCLA School of Medicine
Family Medicine
Dr. John Difiori, MD
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John Difiori practices Family Medicine. He attended Temple University School of Medicine. He over the years received 2 awards: "Top Doctors:LA Area" and "Top Doctors:Southern California". John Difiori is a published physician. He has 28 publications published. The most current publication "Arachnoid cyst and subdural hygroma in a high school football player." John Difiori is registered with Medicare.
Publications
- Sports Specialization, Part II: Alternative Solutions to Early Sport Specialization in Youth Athletes.
- Sport Specialization, Part I: Does Early Sports Specialization Increase Negative Outcomes and Reduce the Opportunity for Success in Young Athletes?
- American Medical Society for Sports Medicine (AMSSM) Recommended Sports Ultrasound Curriculum for Sports Medicine Fellowships.
- American medical society for sports medicine recommended sports ultrasound curriculum for sports medicine fellowships.
- Overuse injuries and burnout in youth sports: a position statement from the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine.
- Sports-related traumatic hyphema.
- Menstrual dysfunction in athletes. How to identify and treat patients at risk for skeletal injury.
- Factors associated with wrist pain in the young gymnast.
- Wrist pain in a young gymnast: unusual radiographic findings and MRI evidence of growth plate injury.
- Distal radial growth plate injury and positive ulnar variance in nonelite gymnasts.
- Arachnoid cyst and subdural hygroma in a high school football player.
- Stress fracture of the proximal fibula in a young soccer player: a case report and a review of the literature.
- Dislocation of the posterior tibial tendon without disruption of the flexor retinaculum. A case report and review of the literature.
- Wrist pain, distal radial physeal injury, and ulnar variance in young gymnasts: does a relationship exist?
- Wrist pain in young gymnasts: frequency and effects upon training over 1 year.
- Wrist pain, distal radial physeal injury, and ulnar variance in the young gymnast.
- Physeal injuries in children''s and youth sports: reasons for concern?
- Overuse injury and the young athlete: the case of chronic wrist pain in gymnasts.
- Management of patellofemoral pain syndrome.
- Stress reaction of the fifth metatarsal head in a college basketball player.
- Musculoskeletal interventional ultrasound.
- Ultrasonographic evaluation of splenic enlargement in athletes with acute infectious mononucleosis.
- New techniques in concussion imaging.
- Overuse injuries in children and adolescents.
- Overuse injury of the physis: a "growing" problem.
- Evaluation of overuse injuries in children and adolescents.
- Family Physicians with a Sports Medicine Certificate of Added Qualification (CAQ): Well Prepared to Meet a Significant Patient Care Need.
Schools
Temple Univ Sch Of Med
Lancaster Gen Hospital
UCLA Med CtrUCLA D Geffen School
Doctors Specialties
- Sports Medicine
- Family Medicine
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- Top Doctors:LA Area
- Top Doctors:Southern California
Education
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UCLA Medical Center -
Lancaster General Hospital -
Temple University School of Medicine
Hospital
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Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center -
Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center and Orthopaedic Hospital
Drug Facts
| NPI NUMBER | 1215950092 | |
| NPPES Provider LastName | DIFIORI | |
| NPPES Provider FirstName | JOHN | |
| NPPES Provider ZIPCode | 904043414 | |
| NPPES Provider State | CA | |
| Specialty Description | Orthopedic Surgery | |
| Total Claim Count | 259.0 | |
| Distinct Opioid Count | 0.0 | |
| Opioid Claim Count | 0.0 | |
| Percent Opioid Claims | 0.0 |
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| National Provider Identifier [NPI] | 1215950092 |
| Last Name Of The Provider | DIFIORI |
| First Name Of The Provider | JOHN |
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