Physical medicine and rehabilitation

My responsibilities include being a caregiver to the recovering patients, handling medical information, performing physical exercises to promote healing, assisting feeding and bathing and lastly; performing injections for bloodwork and probable medicines. Furthermore, I learned about the average salary of a physical rehabilitation nurse. $60,000 a year sounds extremely appealing, but perhaps other clinics and/or hospitals pay even more? During the informational interview…

Introduction Caregivers provide physical and emotional support to friends or family members with heart failure. If you are supporting someone who has heart failure, you play an important role in making sure that the person follows schedules, takes medicines, and follows the overall treatment and rehabilitation plan. What do I need to know about heart failure? Heart failure is a serious condition. It means that the heart cannot fill or pump enough blood and oxygen to support the body and its…

Respected oncology rehabilitation physical therapist Kim Marshall, DPT, CLT and highly-regarded medical oncology professional Donna Valentine, a physicians assistant, are teaming up to provide coordinated care that addresses the specific and varied health needs of breast cancer survivors in Orange County. The duo having been personally touched by family members with breast cancer, have worked closely together for many years are looking to develop this niche to ensure survivors don’t fall…

INTRODUCTION TO SPORTS MEDICINE CONTENTS 1. Definition and Concept of Sports Medicine. 2. Scope of Sports Medicine 3. Aims and Objective of Sports Medicine 4. Role of Sports Medicine in Physical Education & Sports DEFINATION Sports medicine is a branch of medicines,which can defined as medicine develop in response to the sports man needs. ACCORDING TO J.G.P WILLIAM sports medicine is specialised study of various physiological and pathological. ACCORDING TO Dr.P.K PANDEY To…

Despite the different initial treatments the types of rehabilitation are pretty much identical. These rehabilitations involve different types of physical therapies which lead similar results based the initial severity of the stroke. These results can include regaining function to areas paralyzed in the body, regaining the ability to talk, and overall…

shepard.org/patient-programs/spinal-cord-injury/about). Returning to daily life with a spinal injury is a major struggle in a lot of ways. The struggles of returning to daily life after a spinal cord injury are based on, the category of injury, rehabilitation, changes in daily life, and treatments. Doctors use the level of injury to tell what parts of the body will…

Louisiana State University School of Medicine in New Orleans and is in practice for more than twenty years. He is board certified in both Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation and Sports Medicine. Dr. Morstead currently works as an independent practitioner for eighteen years in Monroe, LA. He is also affiliated with St. Francis Medical Center and Glenwood Regional Medical Center. In addition, Dr. Morstead is also a Medical Director of the Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility, Medical Director of…

injury or car accident, many doctors send their patients to physical therapy to help them make a full recovery. But what exactly does a physical therapist do to heal your injured body? The expert staff at Total Care Physical Therapy & Sports Medicine explain below the crucial role a physical therapist plays in recovery. Physical therapy is a great option for people of all ages—from newborns to the elderly. Trained and certified, physical therapists alleviate pain and stimulate movement in…

Supraspinatus Tendinopathy Introduction Supraspinatus tendonitis is an inflammation of the tendon that is located on the supraspinatus muscle; this muscle helps with shoulder abduction and it stabilizes the humerus. The U.S. National Library of Medicine published a scientific article which assesses how effective manual therapeutics are in the treatment of patients with supraspinatus tendinopathy. It contains a total of 77 subjects with an age range of 30-55 years old with supraspinatus…

Association (AMA) established the Essentials of an Acceptable School of Occupational Therapy. AMA in collaboration with AOTA inspected and accredited schools. Once the profession continued to grow during wartime OT, it was more associated with physical medicine. But at the same time, our affiliation start to go apart because the medical practice had plans for control our practice and then our education. In the beginning, the profession was very close to mental health area, where occupational…