Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation – Physiatry
What does this specialty do?
The Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation – Physiatry service offers specialized care with a comprehensive approach to pain management, diagnosis, and treatment of musculoskeletal, cardiovascular, and neurological conditions. It promotes improved mobility, physical fitness, quality of life, and independence, facilitating functional recovery after injuries or surgeries and preventing complications such as stiffness and muscle atrophy.
Personalized therapies are provided (physical, occupational, speech therapy, pelvic floor and neurological rehabilitation), formulation of orthoses, prostheses and mobility devices (canes, crutches, walkers or wheelchairs), analgesia and patient education.
In addition, electrodiagnostic studies such as nerve conduction velocities, electromyography, and evoked potentials are performed.
The service caters to everyone from newborns to the elderly, both in hospital and outpatient settings, with a medical team in constant training that guarantees high institutional and regulatory standards.
Diseases it treats
- Musculoskeletal conditions: injuries to bone, ligaments, tendons, cartilage, joints, muscles, amputations or sequelae of orthopedic surgery.
- Neurological conditions or sequelae after surgeries that compromise the central or peripheral nervous system.
- Sequelae of rheumatological diseases and burns.
- Pelvic floor dysfunction (urinary or fecal incontinence, neurogenic bladder, prolapses).
- Cardiovascular diseases.
- Physical deconditioning, overweight, and metabolic diseases.
- Alterations in developmental processes in the pediatric population.
Procedures and treatments
- Muscle and joint infiltrations.
- Application of botulinum toxin in cerebral palsy, stroke sequelae, spinal cord injury, bruxism and chronic pain due to muscle hyperactivity.
- Shockwave therapy for the treatment of tissues with chronic pain.
- Electrodiagnostic studies.
- Individualized rehabilitation programs, designed with short, medium and long term objectives, considering the family, work, sports and social environment of each patient.
Subspecialties
Pediatric rehabilitation.
Neurological rehabilitation.
Orthopedic and burn rehabilitation.
Cardiac rehabilitation.
Electrophysiology (electrodiagnosis and intraoperative monitoring).
Orthotics, prosthetics and mobility devices service.
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Contact
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