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American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine

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Membership is about 2,300, consisting of clinicians and nonclinicians with an interest in medical rehabilitation (rehabilitation medicine, physical medicine and rehabilitation) research, and training in medicine, (neuro)psychology, occupational and physical therapy, nursing, speech and language pathology, vocational counseling, rehabilitation engineering, medical sociology, etc. Medical rehabilitation concerns restoration of function for individuals who as a result of stroke, traumatic brain injury, spinal cord injury, amputation, cancer, neurodegenerative diseases and other disorders have impairments and activity limitations that are primarily physical in nature but often also include cognitive and behavioral deficits; it is to be distinguished from psychiatric rehabilitation, addiction rehabilitation, etc., although there is an overlap in methods and sometimes clientele. ACRM members share an interest in rehabilitation research, and the translation of...

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  1. American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine, Reston, VA, USA

    Marcel P. J. M. Dijkers

  2. Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA

    Marcel P. J. M. Dijkers

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  1. Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA

    Jeffrey S. Kreutzer

  2. Kessler Foundation, Pleasant Valley Way, West Orange, NJ, USA

    John DeLuca

  3. Independent Practice, Wynnewood, PA, USA

    Bruce Caplan

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Dijkers, M.P.J.M. (2018). American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine. In: Kreutzer, J.S., DeLuca, J., Caplan, B. (eds) Encyclopedia of Clinical Neuropsychology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57111-9_592

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