How do they match: Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Physicians

  • Diagnose or treat performance-related conditions, such as sports injuries or repetitive-motion injuries.
  • Instruct interns and residents in the diagnosis and treatment of temporary or permanent physically disabling conditions.
  • Prescribe therapy services, such as electrotherapy, ultrasonography, heat or cold therapy, hydrotherapy, debridement, short-wave or microwave diathermy, and infrared or ultraviolet radiation, to enhance rehabilitation.
  • 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.

  • Diagnose medical conditions.
  • Examine patients to assess general physical condition.