Medico-Legal Program

"Medico-legal, CV". of Dr. Elena Polukhin

Rehabilitation Consultants, Inc., provides services for plaintiff and defense attorneys and insurance professionals with objective medical expertise. A single phone call to us provides access to the most highly credentialed and supported network of board-certified practicing physicians in the State of Minnesota, consisting of medical and forensic experts spanning different medical specialties and legal needs. We have physicians in our network that:

• Have been personally credentialed and oriented by us.
• Are independent (not employees of our firm) and stay in active clinical practice.
• Choose whether to accept each assignment.
• Have been educated about the legal process and working with attorneys.
• Provide culturally sensitive opinions, our strength is cases involving ethnic and minority groups.
• Will do Independent Medical Examinations for Attorneys (plaintiff and defense) and Claim Adjusters.
• Specialize in Workers’ Compensation and No-Fault cases.
• Are proficient in impairment rating.
• Have special interest in chronic pain syndrome, fibromyalgia and somatization disorder.
• Provide gender sensitive opinions and physical exams for female examinees.
• Will testify at trial.
• Are able to provide services in English, Russian, Hebrew, Ukrainian, Serbian, and Croatian.

Never used our services before? We make it easy for you to get to know us with:

• No-charge, on-site case management services.
• No-charge, on-site continuing education presentations.
• No-charge, 10-minute physician phone consultations.
  (Some limitations apply.)
  Call Alex at (651) 206-5258 to learn more, or contact us by email at: Alextolstov@elenarehabilitation.com
  

Board Certification:

• American Board of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
• American Board of Independent Medical Examiners
  

Professional Memberships:

• Fellow of American College of Sports Medicine
• American Board of Independent Medical Examiners
• American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
• International Society of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
• American Pain Association
  

Professional Qualifications:

• Internationally recognized expert in sports medicine and rehabilitation focused on musculoskeletal disorders.
• Conducted original research in rehabilitation of top level athletes, performance enhancement, and over-training syndrome prevention using no-doping medications and special rehabilitation techniques.
• Author of multiple publications and presentations in Europe and USA.
• Maintains an academic appointment and completed numerous visiting professorships in many distinguished universities worldwide.
• Professional athlete, competing in the Russian Olympic Team gymnastics. Upon completion of medical school in 1981, invited to join the Eastern European Olympic Committee Medical Commission. Being a physician and scientist, provided medical services and rehabilitation for top level athletes and Olympic team members.
• Completed a Ph.D. in Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation in 1989 and was invited to lead the Medical Commission of the Israeli Olympic Committee. Head of the Commission from 1993 through 1997, responsible for the preparation of Israeli, Turkish, and Eastern European (through UNESCO collaboration) athletes to the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta.
• Since 1997, worked in Canada and USA as a physiatrist (specialist in physical medicine and rehabilitation) continuing medical practice and academic activities in Sports Medicine and integrative physical medicine.
• 18 years of practice in physical medicine and rehabilitation.
• Preformed over 200 Independent Medical Examinations in the USA.
• Special interest in immigration, women’s health, chronic pain syndrome, and vocational rehabilitation.
• Proficient in impairment rating according to the AMA Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment and Minnesota Workers’ Compensation Permanent Partial Disability Schedule.
  

Specialties:

• Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation of musculoskeletal disorders, chronic pain syndrome, traumatic brain injury, stroke, spinal cord injury, and neurological disorders.
• Proficient in electrodiagnostic testing interpretation and imaging studies reading and interpretation.
  

Medical-Legal Training:

• Disability diagnosis, evaluation, and rehabilitation and impairment rating within residency training at the National Israeli Rehabilitation Center “Beit Loewenstein,” Tel Aviv University Sackler Medical School - 1992-1993, and State University of New York at Buffalo - 1999-2003.
• American Board of Independent Medical Examiners training courses and certification examination - 2003-2006.
• Medical-legal expert training course “Concipio”, Omaha, Nebraska - 2005.
• Medico-legal training in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2006.
  

Available Services:

• Independent Medical Examinations, Case Reviews, and other medical expert services specializing in musculoskeletal disorders for Workers’ Compensation and No-Fault cases.
• Special interest in immigrants’ health and medico-legal issues.
• Special interest in chronic pain syndrome, fibromyalgia and somatization.