Subspecialties
Six formal sub-specializations are recognized by the field in the United States:
- Hospice and Palliative Medicine
- Neuromuscular Medicine
- Pain Medicine
- Pediatric Rehabilitation
- Spinal Cord Injury Medicine
- Sports Medicine
Other subspecialties within the field that are recognized include the following:
- Musculoskeletal pain management
- Intervention physiatry
- Surgical rehabilitation
- Rheumatological rehabilitation
- Obesity and other lifestyle disease modifications
- Cardiopulmonary rehabilitation
- Amputee care
- Electrodiagnostics
- Traumatic brain injury (TBI)
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