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“Rehabilitation Matters!”: Physical Rehabilitation as an Essential Process Post-acute Trauma Care

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This speciality is known as Physiatry in the USA or PM&R elsewhere. It is a medical speciality which treats the injured patient following acute trauma to restore function and work towards reintegration of the patient into all spheres of social and occupational life. The terms are often used to describe the whole medical team caring for the patient, not only the Doctor.

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  1. Netcare Rehabilitation Hospital, Bunting Rd & Canary Street, Johannesburg, 2006, South Africa

    Virginia S. Wilson

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  1. Professor of Surgery Division of Trauma, Emergency Surgery and Surgical Critical Care, Massachusetts General Hospital Harvard University Medical School, Boston, USA

    George C. Velmahos

  2. Professor Emeritus, Department of Surgery, University of the Witwatersrand Medical School, Milpark Hospital Academic Trauma Centre and Leratong Hospital, Johannesburg, South Africa

    Elias Degiannis

  3. Honorary Senior Lecturer, Department of Surgery, University of the Witwatersrand Medical School, Johannesburg, South Africa

    Dietrich Doll

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Wilson, V.S. (2017). “Rehabilitation Matters!”: Physical Rehabilitation as an Essential Process Post-acute Trauma Care. In: Velmahos, G., Degiannis, E., Doll, D. (eds) Penetrating Trauma. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-49859-0_80

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