Physiatry — Rehabilitation in Special Populations
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation · Clinical Specialties
How it begins
Manual de referencia médica que aborda la restauración funcional de pacientes vulnerables. Incluye desde la neurorehabilitación infantil y el paciente geriátrico frágil, hasta las estrategias terapéuticas para sobrevivientes de cáncer, amputados de alta complejidad, quemados críticos y lesiones medulares severas.
What it covers
- Introduction and Fundamentals of Rehabilitation Medicine
- · The CIF Conceptual Model in Physiatry
- Physiology of Aging and Geriatric Rehabilitation
- · Sarcopenia, Dynapenia and Frailty: Physiopathological Criteria
- · Post-Hip Fracture Rehabilitation Protocol and Arthroplasties
- Pediatric Neurorehabilitation
- · Cerebral Palsy (CP): GMFCS Functional Classification
- · Management of Focal and Generalized Spasticity
- · Rehabilitation in Spina Bifida and Myelomeningocele
- Rehabilitation of the Patient with Spinal Cord Injury (SCI)
- · The ASIA International Classification (AIS)
- · Pathophysiology of Autonomic Dysreflexia (AD)
- · Management of the Bladder and Neurogenic Bowel
- Rehabilitation in Acquired Brain Injury
- · Clinical Basis of Hemiplegia and Painful Shoulder
- · Cognitive and Behavioral Rehabilitation Strategies
- Oncological Rehabilitation
- · Clinical Management of Post-Mastectomy Lymphedema
- · Exercise Prescription with Bone Metastases: Mirels Score
- Rehabilitation of Amputees and Prosthetic Orthoses
- · Stump Conditioning and Phantom Limb Pain
- · Biomechanics of Prosthetic Gait and Common Deviations
- Rehabilitation of the Burn Patient
- · Contraction Prevention and Positioning Map
- · Treatment and Modeling of Hypertrophic Scars
- Complex Cardio-pulmonary Rehabilitation
- · Medical Prescription for Cardiac Exercise by METs
- · Pulmonary Rehabilitation in COPD and Ventilatory Weaning
- Advanced Rheumatological Rehabilitation
- · Clinical Strategies in Spondyloarthropathies and Inflammatory Arthritis
- Scales and Functional Clinical Evaluation
- · Compendium of Standardized Measurement Scales
- Physiatric Interventionism and Pain Control
- · Peripheral Nerve Blocks and Guided Botulinum Toxin
- Applied Technology: Advanced Robotics and Orthoses
- · Robotic-Assisted Gait Reeducation and Exoskeletons
- · Biomechanics of Ankle-Foot Orthoses (AFO)
- Clinical Correlations and Decision Algorithms
- · Clinical Case 1: Multifocal Spasticity in Cerebral Palsy
- · Clinical Case 2: Rehabilitation in Complete Spinal Cord Injury T4 ASIA A
The complete study guide is in the app
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- Subject
- Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
- Category
- Clinical Specialties
- Type
- Study Guide
- Sections
- 40
- Reviewed
- 2026-08-02