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Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation: The Unknown Specialty

As a family physician in private practice, our Editor in Chief, Linda Girgis, MD, understands what it means to practice in a vast area of medicine. While physicians will always juggle the challenges of their specialty, many are unfamiliar with a resource that can provide support for countless medical conditions: physical medicine and rehabilitation (PM&R). Recently, Dr. Girgis introduced us to Mahmud M. Ibrahim, MD, who is double board certified in sports medicine and PM&R.

In a Q&A with Dr. Girgis, Dr. Ibrahim explains the often unknown value of his specialty. And we’ve found he is just as passionate about his specialty as his specialty is valuable to the medical community:

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Articles of Interest

A Physiatry Resident Goes to Japan

During my time in Japan, I noticed the corollary effects of infusion of technology in the high rates of conversion of other clinical specialists (neurosurgeons, orthopedic surgeons, otolaryngologists) to rehabilitation medicine. I met three such individuals at FHU, who had converted to become physiatrists after more than two decades in their primary specialty. They told me that they felt rehab was the way of the future in Japan given the rapidly aging population, and that physiatrists made the most significant impact in terms of long-term outcomes for their patients.

Navigating back pain treatments: Can a physiatrist help?

When people have severe pain, or have not found enough pain relief with conservative treatments, physiatrists who are trained in peripheral joint injections and spinal injections can offer these procedures.

Physiatrist vs Physical Therapist: 5 Major Differences

Physical therapists don’t diagnose medical conditions, but physiatrists do. A physiatrist uses diagnostic tools like X-ray, nerve conduction studies, and electromyography to identify the underlying medical conditions that require rehabilitation.

Tongue-Controlled Wheelchair Helps Paralyzed People Move

A new wireless device has allowed paralyzed people to drive a wheelchair simply by moving their tongues.

Resources

Physiatry is More Than

Physiatry is more than any one illness, injury, patient or physician. It is a diverse specialty, practiced in a variety of settings. Here you will find perspectives of the specialty told by patients, family members, and physiatrists. The intent is to celebrate and unite the specialty in its work, because united, our impact is magnified.

PhysiatryNow

PhysiatryNow is an educational organization that shares research and develops medical education content focusing on rehabilitation medicine, and the knowledge, diagnosis and treatment of neurological and musculoskeletal conditions.

Physiopedia

We are a charity, a not-for profit organisation. We educate physiotherapists all over the world. We build physiotherapy community. We advocate for the physiotherapy profession. We help those in need of physiotherapy knowledge. We have an impact on people's lives!

Association of Academic Physiatrists

The Association of Academic Physiatrists (AAP) is an organization of physiatry professionals who are dedicated to improving patient care by advancing the specialty through research and education.

Bone and Joint Initiative

Patient, healthcare professional or researcher -- child, teen, adult or senior -- if you're visiting us to answer a question, to find information, or to participate in an activity, thank your bones and joints for bringing you here. Think about it: if the bones and joints in your body are strong and flexible, they move smoothly.

Cornucopia of Disability Information

CODI serves as a community resource for consumers and professionals by providing disability information in a wide variety of areas. It consists of both an Internet Directory of Disability Information and a repository of electronic disability documents, dating back to the early 1990s. Many of the documents on CODI are publicly available nowhere else on the Internet.

Johns Hopkins Medicine

Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Articles.

National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases

The mission of the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases is to support research into the causes, treatment, and prevention of arthritis and musculoskeletal and skin diseases; the training of basic and clinical scientists to carry out this research; and the dissemination of information on research progress in these diseases.

National Rehabilitation Information Center

The National Rehabilitation Information Center's online gateway to an abundance of disability- and rehabilitation-oriented information organized in a variety of formats designed to make it easy for users to find and use.

AbleData

AbleData provides objective information on assistive technology and rehabilitation equipment available from domestic and international sources to consumers, organizations, professionals, and caregivers within the United States. We serve the nation's disability, rehabilitation, and senior communities.