Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
The branch of medicine concerned with the functional restoration of a person affected by a physical disability. Physical medicine involves the management of disorders that alter the function and the performance of a patient with emphasis placed upon the optimization of function through the combined use of medications, physical modalities, physical training with therapeutic exercise, movement and activities modification, adaptive equipments and assistive device, orthotics, prosthesis and experimental training approaches.
Variants
- physical medicine
