For those with physical impairments or disabilities, physiatry -also known as Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation (PM&R) - enhances and restores your functional ability and quality of life.

Physiatrists specialize in restoring function for injuries relating to your muscles, bones, tissues or nervous system.  Physiatrists do not perform surgery, their medical services include: medications, physical training with therapeutic exercise, movement and activities modification, adaptive equipments and assistive devices, orthotics (braces) and prosthesis training. 

Physiatrists treat various musculoskeletal (muscles and bones), cardiovascular (heart and blood vessels), pulmonary (lungs and breathing), and neurological (nervous system) disorders.

Your Physiatrist will evaluate conditions like:

• Arthritis
• Back pain
• Work-related and sports-related injuries
• Brain or spinal cord injuries

Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation physicians may also perform electrodiagnostics, including EMGs/Nerve Conduction, to provide nervous system functional information for diagnosis
and/or prognosis.