, Dr Justiniano F. Campa, an Associate Professor of Neurology, left the UVA Faculty to 
establish a neurology private practice in Charlottesville, affiliated with Martha Jefferson Hospital. Dr. Campa trained in neurology and neuropathology at UVA (1963-1968) and in neuromuscular research at the University of Copenhagen (EMG) and at Bethesda NIH (1968-1970). He was appointed Assistant Professor (1970), then Associate Professor with Tenure (1976) in the University of Virginia Faculty of Neurology. He was also named Director of the EMG and Muscle Biopsy Histochemistry Laboratories of the UVA Hospital. After nine years in the UVA Neurology Faculty, Dr. Campa decided to expand his practice from a neuromuscular subspecialty to that of clinical neurology with MRI/CT neuroimaging. To accomplish this, he started his private practice, under the name of Justiniano F. Campa, MD, PC. His first office opened in September 1979, was located across from Martha Jefferson Hospital.
Dr. Campa remained in solo practice for another 30 years, building a general neurology practice in the community, attending to children as well as adults, consulting for hospital inpatients and providing diagnostic neurology services in EEG, EMG, CT and MRI. Dr Campa is certified by the Boards of Neurology, Electro-Diagnostic Medicine (EMG) and Neuroimaging. He retired in the spring of 2009 after 39 years of professional life and 49 years after graduating in 1960, from the Medical School at the University of Madrid, Spain.
Dr Campa's publications include Nature & Science (1970) articles on his original research on the "Histochemistry of energy metabolism in spinal motorneurons" that led to his doctoral thesis. The 1972 original work on the treatment of Myasthenia Gravis with steroids with his neurology colleagues at the University of Virginia; a chapter on Diseases of the Motor Unit in Toole's New Concepts in Neurology and several clinical publications on the field of Muscle & Nerve, his subspecialty while in the UVA Faculty of Neurology. During his nine years tenure at UVA, Dr Campa assisted in the training and made lasting frienships with close to 40 neurology residents accepted into the UVA Training Program.
After retirement in 2009, Dr Campa went through several months of rehabilitaion after hip replacement. it is during that time that he noted the inadequacy of canes and the advantages of even generic walking sticks as walking aids for the handicap (The Story). Calling on his long neurology experience he then searched for the best and new features in a walking stick that will make medical and neurological sense (Neurology & the third leg) and came out with a design that he daringly named the neurostaff, the first walking aid designed by a neurologist. It took just as many months to find a custom woodturner capable to lathe a long solid piece of wood into a fine, light and handsome staff with a diverse handle area; and to follow with a finishing carpenter that will bring the random gold and brown markings of curly maple up to a rich and elegant finish. The resulting neurostaff is functional as well as beautiful, the "beautiful third leg", something to wear with pride. A staff for seniors to walk safely and in style.
Dr. Campa has lived for more than 35 years in his country home in Charlottesville.Va, where, with his wife Nancy Sidebotham, they raised three children, Elena, Cristina and Justi, They now have two grandaughters Julia and Ava and expect more to come. Dr Campa still have extensive family in his native Spain.
Dr. Campa is no longer in practice but he is happy to offer free, email, neurological consultation on the use of his neurostaff for patients with conditions ranging from post hip & knee replacements to spinal stenosis or "bad back", Parkinson disease, post stroke and brain tumor rehabilitation, leg neuropathies and unsteadiness and simply for the prevention of falls in the otherwise healthy senior.[ Contact Neurostaff page]