1Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Medical Faculty of Fırat University, Elazığ, Turkey 2Department of Rheumatology, Medicana International Samsun Hospital, Samsun, Turkey 3Department of Biochemistry and Clinical Biochemistry, Medical Faculty of Fırat University, Elazığ, Turkey 4Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Medical Faculty of İnonü University, Malatya, Tu...

BACKGROUND Stroke is one of the leading medical conditions in the Philippines. Over 500,000 Filipinos suffer from stroke annually. Provision of evidence-based medical and rehabilitation management for stroke patients has been a challenge due to existing environmental, social, and local health system issues. Thus, existing western guidelines on stroke rehabilitation were contextualized to draft ...

One of our challenges as physiatrists is to define and describe the uniqueness of our specialty. This challenge is evident when colleagues from other disciplines ask about physiatry, physical medicine and rehabilitation, physical and rehabilitative medicine, or rehabilitation medicine, depending on how we name our specialty. During the past decade I have had many opportunities to contemplate, l...

Murat Uludag, Hasan Cece, Serap Incebiyik, Ahmet Demirkol, Ekrem Karakas, Kenan Akgun I Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, İstanbul University Cerrahpaşa Medical Faculty, Istanbul, Turkey. II Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Harran University Medical Faculty, Sanliurfa, Turkey. III Department of Radiology, Harran University Medical Faculty, Harran, Turkey. IV...

As consultants in rehabilitation medicine and pediatrics sometimes we realize that most of our patients and their families are left unsupported and alone in terms of rehabilitation therapy during the treatment of their primary disease. Probably we forget that rehabilitation should be an integral part of every treatment process. In the case of rare diseases, their basic treatment should be carri...

Teamwork is the cornerstone of rehabilitation medicine. Rehabilitation workers in European countries are well educated in their own disciplines and attain appropriate professional knowledge; however, they lack educational opportunities for acquiring skills and attitudes necessary for effective teamwork, mainly communication, cooperation, and leadership. Consequently, teamwork is compromised and...

BACKGROUND Human resources for rehabilitation are often a neglected component of health services strengthening and health workforce development. This may be partly related to weaknesses in the available research and evidence to inform advocacy and programmatic strategies. The objective of this study was to quantitatively describe the global situation in terms of supply of and need for human res...

The aim of this review is to describe aspects of vocational rehabilitation relevant for a physician aiming to become a specialist in physical and rehabilitation medicine (PRM). The review discusses the epidemiology of incapacity for work, the major patient groups in vocational rehabilitation (musculoskeletal and psychiatric diagnoses comprise approximately 50-70% of the patients), the influence...