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Physical medicine and rehabilitation care using a patient-centred approach
Physical medicine and rehabilitation also known as physiatry or rehabilitation medicine is a medical specialty that helps people regain bodily functions they lost due to medical conditions or injury. Rehabilitation can help many bodily functions, including bowel and bladder problems, chewing and swallowing, problems thinking or reasoning, movement or mobility, speech, and language.
Many injuries or medical conditions can affect one s ability to function, including brain disorders, such as stroke, multiple sclerosis or cerebral palsy, brain injury or spinal cord injury, long-term (chronic) pain, including back and neck pain, major bone or joint surgery, burns, or limb amputation, severe arthritis becoming worse over time, severe weakness after recovering from a serious illness (such as infection, heart failure or respiratory failure). Children may need rehabilitation services for Down S
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Post-COVID Rehab assisting coronavirus patients on the way to functional normalcy
When Ayub Ali, 55, a COVID patient, thought of returning to work after getting discharged from hospital, he realized that he could not walk even small distances without his heart rate increasing. He had to be readmitted to hospital. Ayub has a family history of heart disease, but did not have a pre-existing condition. He had borderline diabetes and hypertension. The echo was okay, but a CT Chest revealed that I had developed lung fibrosis, says Ayub Ali. He says he is not alone. Some of his friends who recovered from COVID-19 also had to come back to the hospital emergency with complaints of breathlessness and chest pain.