Medical Rehabilitation, according to the Pan American Health Organization, is the continuous and coordinated process aimed at obtaining the maximum restoration of the disabled person in the functional, physical, psychological, educational, social, professional and occupational aspects, in order to reintegrate it as a productive member of the community, as well as to promote measures that prevent disability.
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation is a medical specialty that deals with the evaluation and treatment of patients with a disease, disorder or injury that impair normal functions. For this, it works basically three big areas: Physical Medicine, Rehabilitation Medicine and electrophysiological studies.
It offers integrated and interdisciplinary care aimed at the integral recovery of the patient, addressing their physical needs.
Rehabilitation is a process aimed at ensuring that people with momentary or definitive disabilities are able to achieve and maintain an optimal functional status from the physical, sensory, intellectual, psychic or social point of view, so that they have the means to modify your own life and be more independent. Rehabilitation may include measures to provide or restore functions or to compensate for the loss or lack of a function or limitation.
The Physiatrist
“While Traditional Medicine contemplates the disabled due to their losses, Rehabilitation Medicine analyzes them for their remaining abilities”.
The Physician Physician coordinates the rehabilitation team, which is constituted by multiple professionals that from each of their specialties helps the patient to a more comprehensive training, ideally using the transdisciplinary model of care. They can form this team: kinesiologists, occupational therapists, speech therapists, psychologists, social assistants, rehabilitation nurses, trained assistants, administrative staff, medical specialists in basic pathologies, psychiatrists, ortho-prosthetists, the patient, their family, self-help groups, among others.
The doctor specialized in physical medicine and rehabilitation is called Physiatrist, is a medical specialty that deals with the restoration of lost abilities due to illness, disorder or injury.
If you have questions or require more information, contact the specialists of the Clinics in Rehabilitation and Physiatry portal in Merida.
