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physical medicine and rehabilitation
noun
: a medical specialty concerned with preventing, diagnosing, and treating disabling diseases, disorders, and injuries by physical means (as by the use of electrotherapy, therapeutic exercise, or pharmaceutical pain control)
called also physiatry, physical medicine
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Since April, she’s gone to the Non-Surgical Center of Texas, a physical medicine and rehabilitation clinic in San Antonio where Barnett and other therapists massage Campbell’s wrist, arm and shoulder to help strengthen her hand and arm muscles.
—René A. Guzman, ExpressNews.com, 15 June 2020
Paridy said the hospital has the largest research portfolio for a physical medicine and rehabilitation hospital in the world.
—Shanzeh Ahmad, Chicago Tribune, 27 Aug. 2022
Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate Gonzaba Medical Group has started construction on an 11,120-square-foot physical medicine and rehabilitation center near its main medical campus on Pleasanton Road.
—Laura Garcia, San Antonio Express-News, 6 June 2022
As omicron wave wanes:Cincinnati area hospitals reschedule surgeries delayed by COVID-19 Specialty care services will include cardiology, gastroenterology, general surgery, ENT, physical medicine and rehabilitation, orthopedics and obstetrics.
—Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 4 Mar. 2022
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Word History
First Known Use
1939, in the meaning defined above
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“Physical medicine and rehabilitation.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/physical%20medicine%20and%20rehabilitation. Accessed 23 Nov. 2024.
Medical Definition
physical medicine and rehabilitation
noun
: a medical specialty concerned with the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and management of disabling diseases, disorders, and injuries typically of a musculoskeletal, cardiovascular, neuromuscular, or neurological nature by physical means (as by the use of electromyography, electrotherapy, therapeutic exercise, or pharmaceutical pain control)
called also physiatrics, physiatry, physical medicine
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