VCOM - Virginia 2016 Yearbook

AOCPMR: Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation a special interest group of SAAO

Laura Mischell, Chair

T he Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PM&R) specialty committee at VCOM–Virginia strives to educate students about a field that is not well known. PM&R medicine can be described as the intersection

between neurological disease management and

specialty committee have a wide range of interests including focus areas like Sports Medicine, Neurology, Pain Management, and Neuromuscular Medicine.

musculoskeletal rehabilitation. PM&R physicians, known as physiatrists, strive to bring their patients back to maximum ability and health. Students who participate in the PM&R

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