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Rehabilitation Medicine

Overview:
Physical rehabilitation plays an important role in helping people recover from spinal cord injuries, stroke and orthopaedic injuries. There are some new approaches that are helping people to regain function and have a better quality of life, and these are covered in this interview.

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Part One:

  • Goals of rehabilitation
  • Physical therapy/occupational therapy
  • Connection between neurology and rehabilitation
  • Robotic training and research for rehabilitation
  • Stroke rehab using treadmills and robotic hand device
  • Electrical stimulation and rehabilitation

Part Two:

  • Spinal cord injuries
  • Variations in extent of injury
  • Rehabilitation for spinal cord injury
  • Lokomat training - mechanical treadmill research
  • Spinal cord function research

Guest:
Dr. Peter Gorman, the chief of Rehabilitation Medicine at Kernan Hospital. And Dr. Gorman is also an associate professor of Neurology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.

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