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ABOUT REHABILITATION MEDICINE
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Rehabilitation medicine is concerned with the assessment and ongoing
management of activity limitations (disability) and participation
restrictions (handicap) arising from illness and injury. The
specialty encompasses all aspects of clinical medicine and covers a
wide range of conditions that include traumatic brain injury,
stroke, spinal cord injury, orthopaedic trauma, amputation and many
other conditions. The goal is to achieve the highest level of
recovery and function possible for each patient, including physical
compensatory mechanisms and psychological adjustment, educational as
well as vocational and avocational (leisure) considerations.
Training in rehabilitation medicine includes (beside general
medicine and surgical basic training): therapeutic exercise,
physical modalities, prosthetics and orthotics, gait analysis,
neurological, spinal and general rehabilitation interventions,
psychosocial support and rehabilitation management. Specialists
usually work in rehabilitation centres or units that are either
stand-alone centres or attached to hospitals, and collaborate in
multidisciplinary teams that include medical colleagues and nursing
and allied health staff. 1
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The Health Workforce: A Training Programme Analysis, CTA, 2001,
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