Restoring Maximum Function
The Medical Student's Guide to Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Physiatrists treat conditions of
the bones, muscles, joints, brain, and nervous system, which can affect
other systems of the body and limit a person's ability to function.
Here are examples of how physiatrists restore maximum function.
- A life-long runner who complains of new onset foot
pain.
- A carpenter with pain in his lower back and down his leg with
heavy lifting.
- A woman with a spinal cord injury and paralysis below
the waist after a diving accident.
- A baby born with cerebral palsy.
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