Christine E. Townsend, MD

Christine Townsend, MD is an Assistant Professor at Columbia University Medical Center’s Department of Rehabilitation and Regenerative Medicine. She specializes in seeing patients with acute and chronic musculoskeletal injuries, and sports and dance-related injuries.

Dr. Townsend is a former dancer who spent 6 years performing professionally and teaching dance prior to earning her Bachelor of Science in Biology and Chemistry at the University of Missouri – Kansas City. She received her MD from the University of Kansas School of Medicine and completed her residency in physical medicine and rehabilitation at New York-Presbyterian – Columbia and Cornell. She then went on to complete a sports medicine fellowship at Montefiore Medical Center.

Dr. Townsend has a first-hand understanding of the importance for athletes, including performing artists, to be functioning physically at the highest level possible. When injuries do happen, she addresses them with a holistic approach. She believes in an integrated, multi-disciplinary, individualized plan of care for every patient.

Areas of expertise:

• Hand and Wrist Problems
• Hip Injuries
• Hip Pain
• Joint Injections
• Joint Pain
• Knee Pain
• Lumbar Pain
• Minimally Invasive Procedures
• Ultrasound Guided Procedures
• Musculoskeletal Pain
• Musculoskeletal Rehabilitation
• Neuropathy
• Non-operative Sports Medicine
• Osteoarthritis
• Overuse Injury
• Physiatry Consult
• Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
• Plantar Fasciitis
• Rehabilitation
• Rehabilitation Medicine
• Running injuries
• Sacroiliac Joint Pain
• Second Opinions
• Trigger Finger
• Trigger Finger Therapy
• Trigger Point Injections
• Arthritis
• Bursitis
• Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
• Cervical Neck Pain
• Disorder of Ligament
• Elbow Pain
• Overuse Injuries (Athletes)
• Muscle/Ligament Disorder
• Muscle Strain
• Muscle Stiffness
• Tennis Elbow
• Muscle Pain
• Tear, Meniscus
• Muscle Injury
• Tear of Meniscus of Knee
• Meniscus Tears
• Stress Fracture of Tibia
• Knee Injury
• Stress Fracture of Femur
• Knee Injuries
• Stress Fracture
• Kinetic Chain Approach
• Sprains and Strains
• Injury of Muscle
• Sprain
• Sports Medicine Rehabilitation
• Iliotibial Band Syndrome
• Sports Medicine
• Hamstring Tendonitis/Injury
• Sports Injury Rehabilitation
• Hamstring Tear
• Sports Injury
• Golfer's Elbow
• Sports Injuries
• Fractures
• Spine Trauma
• Foot and Ankle Injuries
• Spine Rehabilitation
• Elbow Joint Pain
• Spine Pain
• Cervical Pain (Neck)
• Shoulder Pain
• Ankle Pain
• Shoulder Joint Instability
• Ankle Injury
• Shoulder Injury
• Adolescent Sports Injuries
• Runner's Knee
• ACL Injury Tear
• Rotator Cuff Tear
• Rotator Cuff Injury
• Repetitive Stress Injury
• Platelet Rich Plasma Therapy
• Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP)
• Patellar Tendonitis
• Dance Medicine
• Dance Injuries