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
Requirements