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Descriptor English:   Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine 
Descriptor Spanish:   Medicina Física y Rehabilitación 
Descriptor Portuguese:   Medicina Física e Reabilitação 
Synonyms English:   Medicine, Physical
Physiatrics
Physiatry
Physical Medicine
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation  
Tree Number:   H02.403.680
Definition English:   A medical specialty concerned with the use of physical agents, mechanical apparatus, and manipulation in rehabilitating physically diseased or injured patients. 
Indexing Annotation English:   the specialty; for therapy consider REHABILITATION or PHYSICAL THERAPY MODALITIES and their specifics and /rehabil with specific disease
See Related English:   Biomechanical Phenomena
 
History Note English:   2013 (1966) 
Allowable Qualifiers English:  
CL classification EC economics
ED education ES ethics
HI history IS instrumentation
LJ legislation & jurisprudence MT methods
OG organization & administration ST standards
SN statistics & numerical data TD trends
Record Number:   11243 
Unique Identifier:   D010810 

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