Dr. Solangel Hernández, PhD, MS, PM&R Specialist, SLP - Professional Career in Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine, Deep Oscillation Therapy and Clinical Innovation
Dr. Solangel Hernández is a physician who graduated from the University of Medical Sciences of Havana, a specialist in Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine, and holds a PhD in Health Sciences. She has completed postgraduate master's degrees in Neurorehabilitation, Cardiovascular Rehabilitation, and Clinical Speech-Language Pathology, and is currently pursuing a Master's degree in Artificial Intelligence. Her professional career integrates clinical practice, academic leadership, scientific research, and innovation in rehabilitation.
Dr. Solangel Hernández, PhD, MS, PM&R Specialist, SLP
She currently serves as CEO and Clinical Director of Neuro Rehab Professional Group in Miami, Florida, USA, where she develops a clinical practice focused on rehabilitation.
Throughout more than three decades of professional practice, Dr. Hernández has promoted a rehabilitation model grounded in clinical reasoning, individualized treatment, and an understanding of tissue biology as the foundation for clinical decision-making. Her philosophy is that the selection of any therapeutic modality should be the consequence of analyzing the patient, the underlying pathophysiology, the affected tissue, and the functional goals, rather than the starting point of the therapeutic process.
Dr. Hernández was a pioneer in the academic and scientific introduction of Deep Oscillation Therapy in Cuba and Latin America. Since 2007, she has incorporated this therapeutic modality into postgraduate medical education, scientific meetings, congresses, and academic activities organized by the Latin American Medical Association of Rehabilitation (AMLAR).
In 2008, she introduced Deep Oscillation Therapy into the Dominican Republic, promoting a regional program of clinical research, professional education, and evidence-based clinical application. She later expanded its use within dermatofunctional rehabilitation and the management of fibrosis, scars, oedema, and post-surgical sequelae, integrating the therapy into a tissue-centered rehabilitation model.
She is the author of the book Deep Oscillation Therapy: Experiences in Cervical Pain, Low Back Pain and Epicondylitis, as well as multiple scientific publications related to this therapeutic modality. She has supervised specialist residency theses in Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine on the use of Deep Oscillation Therapy in breast cancer, burns, surgical scars, pressure ulcers, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, facial paralysis, and spasticity, contributing to the training of new generations of rehabilitation physicians.
Among her research projects are a clinical trial on fibrocystic breast disease, considered the largest clinical trial conducted using Deep Oscillation Therapy, and a clinical trial evaluating the therapy in burn patients.
As part of this research, in 2009 she documented the first ultrasound-based assessment of tissue response in depth to Deep Oscillation Therapy at the Hermanos Ameijeiras Clinical-Surgical Hospital in Havana, Cuba. These findings were subsequently published in the Cuban Journal of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and became an important reference for later ultrasound studies investigating tissue interaction using real-time imaging.
Dr. Hernández has also developed an extensive editorial career. She served as Editor-in-Chief of the Cuban Journal of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation for ten years and was Editor-in-Chief of the Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine Portal of Infomed. During the COVID-19 pandemic, she coordinated the editing of the Latin American rehabilitation protocol for hospitalized and intensive care patients, incorporating Deep Oscillation Therapy as one of the therapeutic modalities considered within the rehabilitation approach.
She is the Founder and Honorary President of the Latin American Committee for Scientific Information Management in Rehabilitation (CLAGIR/AMLAR). She has served as compiler, scientific editor, author, and co-author of several academic reference books in Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine.
She is currently the author of the forthcoming Treatise on Deep Oscillation Therapy: Biological Foundations, Clinical Reasoning and Applications in Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine, a work that proposes a paradigm shift in the understanding of this therapeutic modality by placing tissue biology, the tissue microenvironment, mechanobiology, and clinical reasoning at the center of precision rehabilitation.
Her current scientific work focuses on developing new research lines in oncological rehabilitation, mechanobiology, tissue-based dosing, artificial intelligence applied to rehabilitation, and the safe clinical application of Deep Oscillation Therapy in complex clinical situations.
