Basic Practice Concepts
- Rehabilitation philosophy
- History of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
- Rehabilitation teams
- Functional assessment
- Environmental assessment
- Physical environment
- Environmental Assessment
- Interpersonal environment
- Racial Disparities in Access to and Outcomes from Rehabilitation Services
- Conceptual models of disability
- Measurement of Outcomes
Specialized Physiatric Assessment and Management Strategies
- Specialized Physiatric Assessment and Management Strategies
- Osteopathic Medicine
- Adapting Your Practice During a Pandemic: COVID-19
- Procedures
- Diagnostic
- Physiatric approaches to physical examination
- Neurological examination and classification of SCI
- Cognitive/behavioral/neuropsychological testing
- Specialized musculoskeletal examination
- Spine and neck
- Extremities
- Assessment/determination of spinal stability after spinal compression fractures and spinal cord injury
- Physiological principles underlying electrodiagnosis and neurophysiologic testing
- Imaging
- Physiatric approaches to physical examination
- Principles of pharmalogic treatments
- Injectable agents
- Peripheral agents, soft tissue injections
- Anesthetic agents
- Steroids and Corticosteroids
- Central agents
- Intrathecal Agents
- Other central pumps
- Steroids
- Analgesics
- Non-opioids
- Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Medications
- Anticonvulsants
- Other adjuvant agents
- Opioids
- Non-opioids
- Immune stimulators
- Peripheral agents, soft tissue injections
- Therapeutic Injection of Dextrose: Prolotherapy, Perineural Injection Therapy and Hydrodissection
- Joint injections/aspiration
- Spinal procedures
- Chemodenervation and Neurolysis
- Anticoagulant Pharmacology
- Injectable agents
- Diagnostic
- Physiatric therapeutics
- Exercise
- Exercise prescription and basic principles of therapeutic exercise
- Strengthening
- Flexibility
- Endurance
- Skill aquisition
- Integrative Approaches to Therapeutic Exercise
- Core stabilization
- To support specific athletic skills including injury prevention
- Throwing athletes
- For injured workers including prevention
- To support specific athletic skills including injury prevention
- Alternative and complementary approaches
- Acupuncture
- Biomechanical
- Pilates
- Energy flow
- Tai chi
- Role of exercise in neuromuscular conditions
- Exercise prescription and basic principles of therapeutic exercise
- Therapeutic modalities
- Heat
- Cold
- Electricity
- Manual treatments
- Orthotics
- Durable medical equipment that supports activities of daily living, transfers and ambulation
- Environmental evaluation
- Therapeutic massage
- Home/workplace modification
- Universal design
- Ergonomics
- Virtual Reality and Robotic Applications in Rehabilitation
- Caregiving training
- Exercise
- Administrative rehabilitation medicine
- Systems based practice
- Rehabilitation team functioning
- Outcome measurement in rehabilitation
- Compliance issues relevant to rehabilitation
- Regulatory and accreditation requirements in rehabilitation
- Resource allocation in rehabilitation
- Quality Payment Program/Pay for Performance
- Rehabilitation levels of care
- Medico-legal considerations / risk management in rehabilitation
- Patient advocacy in rehabilitation
- Communication issues relevant in rehabilitation
- Communication Issues in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
- Electronic medical record/electronic health record
- Privacy
- Meaningful use
- Medical Reconciliation/Hand-offs Care
- Development of a Comprehensive Cancer Rehabilitation Program
Basic Science Concepts
- Basic skills for assessment of medical literature
- Neurological recovery and regeneration
- Neuromuscular Junction Physiology
- Movement of physiology, biomechanics/kinesiology, and analysis
- Biomechanic of gait and treatment of abnormal gait patterns
- Assessment and treatment of balance impairments
- Energy expenditure during basic mobility and approaches to energy conservation
- Pain and placebo physiology
- Normal aging
- Illness behavior
- Normal development
- Normal childhood and adolescent development
- Psychological and psychosocial development during adulthood
- Developmental transitions
- Child to adult
- Middle age to old age
- Models of learning and behavioral modification in rehabilitation
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