Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Branch of medicine that, through physical agents, prevents, recovers, and adapts patients with impaired mobility, strength, balance, gait, coordination that may or may not lead to physical disability.

It is the art and science of directing someone's response to a selected activity to assess function, promote patient well-being, and train it in its biopsychosocial sphere.

Its participation is focused on the treatment of communication disorders in their expressive and receptive aspects as well as speech. (Santa Fe and Observatorio).

Treatment is provided to patients with disorders in the various phases of swallowing using special techniques of oromotor stimulation as well as electrotherapy (Vital Stim) (Santa Fe and Observatorio).

Through objective tests, it evaluates the higher mental functions (reasoning, calculation, IQ, etc.) and determines the degree of affectation, and designs and implements strategies to achieve improvement in the affected areas. (Santa Fe and Observatorio)