How do they match: Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Physicians

  • Diagnose and treat disorders requiring physiotherapy to provide physical, mental, and occupational rehabilitation.

  • Conduct physical tests, such as functional capacity evaluations, to determine injured workers' capabilities to perform the physical demands of their jobs.
  • Consult or coordinate with other rehabilitative professionals, including physical and occupational therapists, rehabilitation nurses, speech pathologists, neuropsychologists, behavioral psychologists, social workers, or medical technicians.
  • Diagnose or treat performance-related conditions, such as sports injuries or repetitive-motion injuries.
  • Document examination results, treatment plans, and patients' outcomes.
  • Instruct interns and residents in the diagnosis and treatment of temporary or permanent physically disabling conditions.

  • Treat acute illnesses, infections, or injuries.
  • Treat chronic diseases or disorders.
  • Collaborate with healthcare professionals to plan or provide treatment.
  • Develop treatment plans that use non-medical therapies.
  • Monitor patient progress or responses to treatments.
  • Prescribe treatments or therapies.
  • Prescribe assistive medical devices or related treatments.