Rehabilitative medicine is a treatment for patients impaired by diseases or accidents to live as normal and independent a life as possible by improving physical, mental, and social capabilities and potential. All forms of injury from every type of cause, including strokes and spinal cord injuries, are subjects of rehabilitative medicine.
Rehabilitative medicine comprises 3 areas: musculoskeletal medicine, rehabilitative medicine, and electrodiagnosis. Musculoskeletal medicine treats functional abnormalities and pain of the spine, legs and arms and musculoskeletal diseases via a range of conservative therapies apart from surgical treatment, but including medicine, injections, physical therapy, operations, speech therapy and walking frames. Rehabilitative medicine treats motor disturbances and complications from disorders or damage of the central nervous system, peripheral nerve-muscle disease, cerebral infarctions (strokes), spinal damage, cerebral palsy, and peripheral neuritis, minimizing the disability to improve patient living conditions to as close to normal as possible. Electrodiagnosis uncovers neuromuscular disorders through electromyogram inspection.