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Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1997Rehabilitation medicine has a clear but complex mission. As the 13th century physician-philosopher Maimonides once remarked, "To sustain and nurture a man alive in the throes of disease and disability is as great a miracle as to create him." This credo, emblematic of physiatry's calling, is well represented in the pages of Dr Randall L.
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Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1984Because patients with major disabilities usually are initially seen with a variety of problems that touch on many aspects of several different medical and psychosocial specialties and, most recently, the specialty of neurocybernetics, physical medicine and rehabilitation is a multidisciplinary practice that crosses traditional specialty and ...
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Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1981The United Nations has proclaimed 1981 the International Year of the Disabled, and thus the research and clinical advances in physical medicine and rehabilitation are appropriately highlighted. Diagnosis Single-fiber electromyography has emerged as a clinically useful technique to identify neuromuscular transmission defects at an earlier stage in ...
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Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1975To the Editor.— I think George A. Sheehan, MD (232:1127,1975) makes a good point in indicating the lack of use of physical therapy modalities in the treatment of noncontact sports injuries. I think part of the problem is that too few patients are referred to physicians in my specialty of physical medicine and rehabilitation to use all the modalities ...
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Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1993Physiatry has continued to evolve with changing patterns of illness and disability. The Institute of Medicine estimates that 35 million Americans (approximately one in seven) have disabling conditions. 1 More than 9 million are unable to work, study, or live independently. The average American will live almost 13 years with some sort of limitation.
Kristi L. Kirschner, Henry B. Betts
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Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
1978In the words of Gullickson and Licht “rehabilitation medicine is the medical management of physical disability” (16) . This does not imply that all the disabilities incurred by a particular patient are physical problems. To the contrary, significant consideration must be given to the psychological problems of patients undergoing the rehabilitative ...
Paul F. Richardson, C. Earl Hill
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TRAINING IN PHYSICAL MEDICINE AND REHABILITATION
Journal of the American Medical Association, 1959Rehabilitation is a word that denotes restoration or improvement in condition. In medicine it is concerned with a type of practice which places broad social responsibilities on the physician. Physical medicine and rehabilitation is directed toward treatment of disability.
Charles D. Shields, Hugh H. Hussey
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Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
2019Elements of physical medicine and rehabilitation are critical components of any pain management practice. Appropriate use of modalities, manipulation, traction, massage, casting/splinting, and various exercise regiments is often an effective first-line intervention in the management of a variety of pain syndromes and must be considered as an integral ...
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Physical Medicine in Rehabilitation
New England Journal of Medicine, 1945REHABILITATION has been defined as the planned attempt through the use of all recognized measures under skilled direction to restore those persons who, because of disabilities, do not assume to the...
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THE COUNCIL ON PHYSICAL MEDICINE AND REHABILITATION
JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1952A resolution passed by the House of Delegates of the American Medical Association in 1925 empowered the Board of Trustees to appoint a council on "'nonmedicinal agents' similar to the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry." 1 The council appointed by the Board of Trustees was originally named the Council on Physical Therapy.
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