Rehabilitation Medicine. The Management of Physical Disabilities

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.

Rehabilitation medicine: serving people with disabilities.

Almost 13 % of non-institutionalized Americans between the ages of 21 and 64 (about 22.3 million people) reported a disability in the 2007 American Community Survey (ACS). This means that in Rhode Island there are about 87,000 people with disabilities, as defined by three questions. First, are there any permanent conditions such as severe vision impairment or a limitation in at least one basic ...

of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

The Effects of Vocational Rehabilitation for People with Physical Disabilities

We evaluate the impact of vocational rehabilitation services on employment outcomes of adults with physical disabilities. Using detailed panel data from the Virginia Department of Rehabilitation Services (DARS) in State Fiscal Year 2000, we estimate a structural model of participation that accounts for the potentially sudden onset of physical impairments and the endogenous selection of VR servi...

Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation for the Clinician