The Japanese Association of Rehabilitation Medicine. Desire for Rehabilitation Doctors from Neurosurgeon.

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...

Factors Influence the Choice for Rehabilitation and Rehabilitation Efforts

As a common belief among rehabilitation specialists, the purpose of rehabilitation has been restoring some of a person's physical and mental capabilities that have been lost as a result of disease, illness, or injury and to help achieve the highest possible level of function, independence, and quality of life. Goals of rehabilitation for different populations differ. Older adults usually focus ...

Rehabilitation Medicine - The Final Frontier.

Three stages of epidemiologic transitions have come and passed.1 The first age of pestilence and famine was characterised by high birth rates and mortality. The advent of antibiotics heralded the second age of pandemic recession with subsequent exponential population growth. The third age of chronic, degenerative and man-made diseases was marked by the development of modern medicine, low birth ...

Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation for the Clinician

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...