Defining Physiatry and Future Scope of Rehabilitation Medicine

To identify the 'physiatry' in a single word is difficult. This may be due that physiatry originated from two different fields, physical medicine and rehabilitation and focuses on assisting the general improvement of functional recovery in disabled patients. In addition, physiatry has new...

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Autor principal: Lee, Peter K. W.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Korean Academy of Rehabilitation Medicine 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3309231/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22506158
http://dx.doi.org/10.5535/arm.2011.35.4.445
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description To identify the 'physiatry' in a single word is difficult. This may be due that physiatry originated from two different fields, physical medicine and rehabilitation and focuses on assisting the general improvement of functional recovery in disabled patients. In addition, physiatry has new markets to develop; health and welfare. Therefore, the identity of physiatry will change depending on how physiatrists act in these fields. We attempt to define the physiatry from several aspects.
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spelling pubmed-33092312012-04-04 Defining Physiatry and Future Scope of Rehabilitation Medicine Lee, Peter K. W. Ann Rehabil Med Special Comment To identify the 'physiatry' in a single word is difficult. This may be due that physiatry originated from two different fields, physical medicine and rehabilitation and focuses on assisting the general improvement of functional recovery in disabled patients. In addition, physiatry has new markets to develop; health and welfare. Therefore, the identity of physiatry will change depending on how physiatrists act in these fields. We attempt to define the physiatry from several aspects. Korean Academy of Rehabilitation Medicine 2011-08 2011-08-31 /pmc/articles/PMC3309231/ /pubmed/22506158 http://dx.doi.org/10.5535/arm.2011.35.4.445 Text en Copyright © 2011 by Korean Academy of Rehabilitation Medicine http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0) which permits unrestricted noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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