Academic Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Acute Care Consultations

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.

[Academic medicine and care medicine].

En los últimos años, quienes hemos trabajado en los ámbitos de la salud, la educación y el desarrollo social hemos podido constatar la importancia creciente de la compleja relación que hay entre la medicina académica, la salud de la población, la medicina asistencial y los valores sociales. Todos ellos se nutren recíprocamente y unos dan mayor pertinencia a los otros. Esta trama ha recibido, a ...

Physical and rehabilitation medicine (PRM) care pathways: "spinal cord injury".

This document is part of a series of documents designed by the French Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine Society (SOFMER) and the French Federation of PRM (FEDMER). These documents describe the needs for or a specific type of patients; PRM care objectives, human and material resources to be implemented, chronology as well as expected outcomes. "Care pathways in PRM" is a short document design...

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Rehabilitation medicine in the acute care setting in Japan.

In Japan, restorative rehabilitation units were introduced into the healthcare system in 2000. This policy brought structural changes to our inpatient medical services. Three types of medical facilities -namely, acute care hospital, restorative rehabilitation hospital, and chronic care hospital - are now clearly differentiated according to the health condition of inpatients and the medical proc...