A Lure of Rehabilitation Medicine :

Of rehabilitation medicine and the rehabilitation physician.

Rehabilitation Medicine or Physiatry (as is known in North America) is the medical specialty dealing with “restoration of function in people affected by physical disabilities”. The disease categories with which the specialty is mainly concerned are neurological conditions like stroke and brain injury, spinal injury, musculoskeletal disorders and limb amputation. The rehabilitation paradigm diff...

Research in Rehabilitation Medicine

Research in rehabilitation medicine has been discussed on a number of occasions and in different journals during recent years. Worries about the situation of academic medicine in our discipline have been raised, but there have also been constructive suggestions. In his Walter J. Zeiter Lecture, DeLisa (1) points out that stronger research must be developed and also that basic science as well as...

Physical medicine and rehabilitation.

An important priority has been the development of quantitative methods for measuring the disability status of patients undergoing rehabilitation. Intramuscular injection of botulinum toxin is an effective new therapy for spasticity due to a number of causes.

of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Rehabilitation medicine welcomes a robotic revolution.

thing you should do,” said Hendin. • Hospitals should implement programs that train medical students and physicians to recognize depression in themselves, colleagues, and patients. • Medical schools and hospitals should work with insurance companies to develop in-house consultation, referral, and treatment services for students and residents with mental health problems. • Data on treatment serv...