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WHAT IS PHYSICAL MEDICINE AND REHABILITATION (PM&R)?

Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (Rehabilitation Medicine in short) is a new speciality with the concept of providing comprehensive services to persons suffering from any inability to carry out their routine Activities of Daily Living (ADL). PM&R is a speciality recognized by Medical Council of India. The Doctors specializing in PM&R need to do special post-graduation degree courses after the basic MBBS degree. These specialists then head a team of various therapists to give Rehabilitation Medicine its multidisciplinary character.

WHY PHYSICAL MEDICINE AND REHABILITATION?

PM&R is a speciality in which the patient is central and key decision maker in all the treatment interventions. The speciality focuses on using a multidisciplinary approach to the problems which are primarily assessed by the patients themselves. Such interventions are all the more important in the fast pace of life today when we are giving greater stress on our body by the day. The patient is offered various treatments and interventions in which he is educated and the patient makes all the crucial decisions after due diligence with the medical doctor specializing in Rehabilitation Medicine.

WHO IS TO BENEFIT FROM REHABILITATION MEDICINE?

If you have a disease condition which interferes with your normal life functioning in whatsoever little manner, then you are a person who needs Rehabilitation guidance. Rehabilitation Medicine interventions take into consideration both the disease process and your activity requirement. The common examples of such conditions are:

· Arthritis of various types
· Spondylosis
· Ankylosing spondylitis
· Chronic low back pain
· Chronic fatigue and overuse syndromes like those seen in persons working long hours on computers
· Other persistent painful musculoskeletal conditions
· Cerebral palsy
· Stroke and paralysis
· Spinal cord injury
· Parkinsonism and other movement disorders
· Neurological injuries
· Cardiac conditions with functional compromise
· Amputation and congenital loss/deformity in limbs
· Obesity
Regular muscular strengthening

Patient with musculoskeletal, neurological and cardiac compromise stand to gain the most.

WHAT ARE THE OUTCOMES OF REHABILITATION INTERVENTION?

Most of the above diseases have a natural course. There are few interventions which can result in a permanent cure of the problem. The result and outcome of rehabilitation interventions have now been scientifically well proven all over the world and most so in the developed world like USA & Australia (that’s why our national hero Sachin Tendulkar had to go to Australia).

Your outcome with the intervention of the Rehabilitation Medicine Specialist will certainly improve your functional independence measure and you will be able to do greater activities more independently.