Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Consultant

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

• 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
• Develop comprehensive plans for immediate and long-term rehabilitation including therapeutic exercise; speech and occupational therapy; counseling; cognitive retraining; patient, family or caregiver education; or community reintegration
• Coordinate physical medicine and rehabilitation services with other medical activities
  
  

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