Physical disability can affect patients of any age and arise from many sources. Among the causes are sports injuries, conditions affecting the muscular and skeletal systems, neurological trauma such as head or spinal cord injury, stroke, or neck and back pain. The medical specialty that diagnoses and treats such disabilities is called physical medicine and rehabilitation or physiatry.

What are the effects on patients who suffer such conditions? How are rehabilitation programs developed? What can patients expect in undergoing such regimens? How do physicians go about treating these patients and restoring them back to health?  And what are the main health concerns of people with disabilities?

Guests: Edward Phillips, M.D., Director, Outpatient Medical Services, Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital; Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School and Carina O’Neill, D.O., Medical Director, Spaulding Rehabilitation Center-Braintree; Instructor, Harvard Medical School

Host: Bruce Karlin, M.D

Co-produced with Hopkinton Community Access Television, HCAM-TV, Hopkinton Mass.

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