Treating the whole patient and not just the symptoms is essential.
The profession of physiatry specializes in such areas as musculoskeletal rehabilitation, pediatrics, traumatic brain injury, spinal cord injury and sports medicine. These specialists focus on restoring function to people by treating acute and chronic pain as well as coordinating the long-term rehabilitation process. The physiatrist offers an aggressive, non-surgical approach to pain and injury.
Widely known as the field of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Physiatry combines related principles of physical medicine, rehabilitation and electromyography which is a profoundly important electrodiagnostic method for evaluating problems of the neuromuscular system.
Physiatrists diagnose and treat:
- Amputations
- Low back pain
- Neck pain
- Fibromyalgia / myofacial pain / chronic pain
- Spinal cord injuries
- Brain injuries
- Arthritis
- Cancer
- Burns
- Stroke and neurological disorders
- Multiple sclerosis
- Cardiac disorders
- Osteoporosis
- Musculoskeletal disorders
- Work injuries
The physiatrist treatment involves the whole person and addresses physical, emotional and social needs that must be satisfied to restore the patient's quality of life to its maximum potential. Through integrated focused care and comprehensive diagnosis and treatment, physiatrists add quality to the lives of millions of patients each year.
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