Benecia Williams, DO

"Dr. Benecia Williams—double board certified in Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation and Sports Medicine—is an Attending Physician at PMR Fort Worth who specializes in musculoskeletal/sports medicine, interventional spine medicine, fluoroscopic and ultrasound procedures.

After receiving a BS in Kinesiology from the University of Sacramento, she headed to the University of North Texas Health Science Center for a master’s degree in Medical Science and a doctorate in Osteopathic Medicine. After graduation, she completed an internship at John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth and residency at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas (excelling as Chief Resident in both establishments) before returning to John Peter Smith for an ACGME Sports Medicine Fellowship.

Today, Dr. Williams continues to service PMR Fort Worth patients in several sports medicine arenas, offering peripheral joint injections, regenerative medicine, and Botox injections for chronic migraine treatment and spasticity/dystonia management. Her extensive training and experience, including several years as sideline physician for Division I collegiate sports, enables her to approach treatment from various facets using multiple modalities."

"PM&R stands for Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. Another name for it is “physiatry”. PM&R is a medical specialty that emphasizes prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of patients who experience limitations in function resulting from disease process, injury, or symptom. PM&R Physicians also called “Rehab Physicians” utilize medications, physical modalities, exercise, injections (if needed) as well as education individualized to the patient’s needs. PM&R specialists provide care for patients with neuromuscular or musculoskeletal disorders who have acute and/or chronic disabilities requiring rehabilitation services. The goal is to restore optimal patient function in all spheres of life including medical, social, emotional, and vocational dimensions. Physiatry has been aptly branded the “quality of life medical specialty” and has grown in international recognition because of its commitment to meeting the quality-of-life and non-operative neuromuscular and musculoskeletal needs on our aging, active society.

In order to become a PM&R physician doctors at Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Fort Worth (PMRFW) attended 4 years of medical school. After medical school our physicians did their internship which means they trained for one year in general medicine (traditional or transitional internship)."