CHUNG-ANG UNIVERSITY
HOSPITAL

The philosophy of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation is “to make the saved life worth living.”

Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation is of growing importance in the highly advanced society, a society with well-developed means of transport, and the aging society.
The Department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation consists of specialized and subdivided medical care fields such as spinal cord injury rehabilitation, stroke and brain injury rehabilitation, pediatric rehabilitation, amputation rehabilitation, pain rehabilitation, and sports rehabilitation. We are doing our best to provide the best medical services for patients who suffer from both mental and physical inconveniences.

Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation can be largely divided into three: musculoskeletal medicine, medical rehabilitation, and electrodiagnosis.
Musculoskeletal medicine is a field treating dysfunction and pain resulting from diseases of the musculoskeletal system including the spine and extremities, providing all types of conservative treatment such as drugs, injections, physical therapy, kinesitherapy, and orthoses except surgical procedures. Medical rehabilitation aims at improving patients’ quality of life to an approximate normal level by minimizing impairments and improving functions through treatment of motor dysfunction and complications caused by disease or damage of the central nervous system, disease of the peripheral nerve or muscles, i.e., stroke, spinal cord injury, cerebral palsy, peripheral neuritis, and muscular dystrophy.
Lastly, electrodiagnosis diagnoses neuromuscular diseases through electromyography.