Disciplines and Occupations

Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine

A medical specialty concerned with the use of physical agents, mechanical apparatus, and manipulation in rehabilitating physically diseased or injured patients.

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Abstract

A medical specialty concerned with the use of physical agents, mechanical apparatus, and manipulation in rehabilitating physically diseased or injured patients.

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Synonyms

5 entry terms
  • Medicine, Physical
  • Physiatrics
  • Physiatry
  • Physical Medicine
  • Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

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Aspects Covered

12 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, education, ethics, history, instrumentation, legislation & jurisprudence, methods, organization & administration, standards, statistics & numerical data, trends.

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Indexing Annotation

the specialty; for therapy consider REHABILITATION or PHYSICAL THERAPY MODALITIES and their specifics and /rehabil with specific disease

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History Note

2013 (1966)

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  1. H02w.403w.680w

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WB 460

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D010810. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D010810
  2. Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_medicine_and_rehabilitation
  3. Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2678675