What diseases does rehabilitation medicine treat?

Rehabilitation medicine is a comprehensive medical discipline, involving medicine, science and engineering, psychology, education and social science. The main contents include five aspects:

1. Rehabilitation and prevention: including disability epidemiological research and disability prevention. The epidemiological study of disability involves the occurrence, distribution and structural characteristics of disability. The prevention of disability includes the prevention of damage, that is, the prevention of injury; Prevent disability, that is, prevent functional defects caused by injury; Prevention of disability means prevention of permanent disability (disability) after dysfunction.

2. Fundamentals of rehabilitation medicine: including kinematics, neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, psychology and medical engineering.

3. Assessment of rehabilitation function: The assessment covers a wide range, including kinematics measurement, electrophysiological measurement, cardiopulmonary function examination, metabolic and aerobic activity measurement, psychological measurement, language communication ability measurement, daily life ability and professional ability evaluation.

4. Rehabilitation therapeutics: Rehabilitation medicine is an interdisciplinary comprehensive applied subject, which pays more attention to kinematics and neurophysiology in theory. In the application of rehabilitation treatment methods, the medical means of clinical departments are integrated, and the treatment measures such as sports medicine, physical therapy, psychotherapy and rehabilitation medical engineering with functional training as the core are highlighted. Traditional sports rehabilitation and diet therapy used in TCM rehabilitation medicine have the preventive characteristics of combining nourishing with treatment. Nourishing is more important than treatment, which is not only used for the healthy rehabilitation of patients, but also for the health preservation and longevity of healthy people. In the rehabilitation work, we can make full use of the theory and practice of traditional Chinese medicine, enrich the treatment content of rehabilitation medicine, and create conditions for the disabled to recover completely and return to social life as much as possible.

5. Rehabilitation clinic: refers to the discipline of comprehensively solving the disability problems caused by various injuries, and specifically studying the prevention, evaluation, treatment and training of disabilities in various systems and post-illness health care.