Description
Diagnose and treat neuromuscular and musculoskeletal conditions, providing non-surgical pain management and comprehensive rehabilitation to restore function, independence, and quality of life.
- • Instruct interns and residents in diagnosing and treating temporary or permanent physical disabilities.
- • Conduct functional capacity and return-to-work evaluations for injured workers.
- • Assess pain intensity, location, and duration using standardized measures.
- • Monitor and adjust pain management, including medications and image-guided injections.
- • Examine mobility, strength, sensation, communication, and cognition.
- • Document findings, treatment plans, and outcomes in the medical record.
- • Diagnose and treat sports, overuse, and performance-related conditions.
- • Develop individualized rehabilitation plans, including therapeutic exercise, PT/OT, speech therapy, counseling, cognitive retraining, education, and community reintegration.
- • Prescribe and oversee physical therapy to reduce pain and improve strength and function.
- • Coordinate PM&R services with primary care, surgical, and specialty teams.
- • Collaborate with physical and occupational therapists, rehabilitation nurses, speech-language pathologists, neuropsychologists, behavioral health professionals, social workers, and technologists.
- • Perform electrodiagnostic studies, including electromyography, nerve conduction studies, and somatosensory evoked potentials.
- • Prescribe rehabilitative modalities such as electrotherapy, ultrasound, heat or cold therapy, hydrotherapy, debridement, diathermy, and phototherapy.
- • Prescribe and fit orthotics, prosthetics, and adaptive equipment to maximize independence.
- • Manage inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation for neuromuscular disease, musculoskeletal trauma, pain, amputation, and cardiopulmonary or other disabling conditions.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
