Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Physicians

Key skills

A typical day

• •Document examination results, treatment plans, and patients' outcomes.
• •Examine patients to assess mobility, strength, communication, or cognition.
• •Assess characteristics of patients' pain, such as intensity, location, or duration, using standardized clinical measures.
• •Provide inpatient or outpatient medical management of neuromuscular disorders, musculoskeletal trauma, acute and chronic pain, deformity or amputation, cardiac or pulmonary disease, or other disabling conditions.
• •Monitor effectiveness of pain management interventions, such as medication or spinal injections.

Fields of study

Any field