康复医学是由理疗学、物理医学逐渐发展形成一门新学科，是对身体或认知有残损和残疾的各年龄段患者进行诊断、评估和管理的临床医学专业。

康复医学主要涉及到利用物理因子和方法（包括电、光、热、声、机械设备和主动活动）以诊断、治疗和预防残疾和疾病（包括疼痛），研究使病、伤、残者在体格上、精神上、社会上、职业上得到康复，消除或减轻功能障碍，帮助他们发挥残留功能，恢复其生活能力，工作能力以重新回归社会。

Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Physical medicine and rehabilitation (PM&R), also referred to as physiatry, is a medical specialty concerned with diagnosis, evaluation, and management of persons of all ages with physical and/or cognitive impairment and disability. This specialty involves diagnosis and treatment of patients with painful or functionally limiting conditions, the management ofcomorbidities and co-impairments, diagnostic and therapeutic injection procedures,electrodiagnostic medicine, and emphasis on prevention of complications of disability from secondary conditions.

Physiatrists are trained in the rehabilitation of neurologic disorders, and in the diagnosis and management of impairments of the musculoskeletal (including sports and occupational aspects) and other organ systems, and the long-term management of patients with disabling conditions. Physiatrists provide leadership to multidisciplinary teams concerned with maximal restoration or development of physical, psychological, social, occupational and vocational functions in persons whose abilities have been limited by disease, trauma, congenital disorders or pain to enable people to achieve their maximum functional abilities.

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