Rehabilitation Medicine (Part 2)

About the Video:
Physical rehabilitation plays an important role in helping people recover from spinal cord injuries, stroke, and orthopaedic injuries. There are some new approaches to this type of medicine that are helping people regain function and have a better quality of life.

In part two of this two-part interview with Ellen Beth Levitt, Dr. Peter Gorman discusses a variety of topics pertaining to rehabilitation medicine. Some of these topics include:

Spinal cord injuries
Variations in extent of injury
Rehabilitation for spinal cord injury
Lokomat training - mechanical treadmill research
Spinal cord function research

About the Expert:
Dr. Peter Gorman is the chief of Rehabilitation Medicine at Kernan Hospital. He is also an associate professor of Neurology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.

Related Links:

Dr. Peter Gorman
http://www.umm.edu/doctors/peter_h_gorman.html

Rehabilitation Medicine (Part 1)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjU3zJbhMxI

UMMC Departments of Neurology and Neurosurgery
http://www.umm.edu/neurosciences/index.htm

UMMC Center for Neurorehabilitation
http://www.umm.edu/postacute/neuro_rehab.htm

Overview: Rehabilitation
http://www.umm.edu/neurosciences/rehabilitation.htm

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Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• gorman
• peter gorman
• rehabilitation
• rehab
• spinal cord injuries
• stroke
• orthopaedic injuries
• treatment
• lokomat training
• mechanical treadmill
• mht
• ummc