Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
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Nationally Ranked in Rehabilitation
UT Southwestern Medical Center is ranked by U.S. News & World Report as one of the nation’s top 15 hospitals for rehabilitative care.
Focused on Excellence and Innovation
The Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at UT Southwestern Medical Center is dedicated to optimizing quality of life and function through excellence and innovation in patient care, research, and education.
Meet the Team
Our faculty members are specialists in physical medicine and rehabilitation and are dedicated to providing the very best in patient care.
Research
Our research efforts help to continuously improve patient care through the investigation of topics such as traumatic brain injury, burn rehabilitation, and wound care.
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Education
The department’s residency and training programs are nationally recognized. Our outstanding faculty and staff are committed to training tomorrow’s physiatrists in clinical and basic science research on the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disabilities in the areas of brain injury, pain, burn injury, multiple sclerosis, spinal cord injury, stroke, and electrodiagnostic medicine.
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Patient Care
Our department provides comprehensive rehabilitative care across the continuum, including acute hospital inpatient care, inpatient rehabilitation, outpatient rehabilitation, clinic services, and telehealth. We treat a wide variety of medical conditions affecting the brain, spinal cord, nerves, bones, joints, ligaments, muscles, and tendons. By focusing on nonsurgical diagnoses and management of conditions affecting function and quality of life, we seek to improve our patients’ mobility and lessen difficulties in cognition and communication.
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Related Conditions and Treatments
- Abdominal Pain and Pelvic Pain
- Amputation Rehabilitation
- Amyloidosis
- Ankle and Foot Sprain, Strain, and Trauma
- Ankylosing Spondylitis
- Aphasia
- Arthritis
- Ataxia
- Back Pain
- Basilar Invagination, Basilar Impression, and Cranial Settling
- Behavioral Treatments for Pain
- Botox and Dysport Injections
- Brain Aneurysm
- Burn Rehabilitation
- COVID Recover
- Cancer Pain Management
- Cerebral Palsy
- Cerebrospinal Fluid Leak
- Chronic Spine and Back Pain
- Cluster Headache
- Concussion and Traumatic Brain Injury
- Degenerative Disc Disease
- Degenerative Hand, Wrist, and Elbow Conditions
- Electrodiagnostics
- Extremity Pain
- Foot and Ankle
- Fractures of the Upper and Lower Extremities
- Glomus Tumor
- Hand, Wrist, and Elbow
- Hand, Wrist, and Elbow Overuse Injuries
- Headache
- Hemorrhagic Stroke
- Herniated Disc
- Hip
- Hip Pain and Disorders
- Hip Reconstruction and Replacement Surgery
- Inpatient Rehabilitation
- Interdisciplinary Pain Management
- Ischemic Stroke
- Knee
- Knee Reconstruction and Replacement Surgery
- Knee Repair Surgery
- Kyphosis
- Medication Overuse Headache
- Memory Disorders
- Migraine
- Moyamoya Disease
- Multiple Sclerosis
- Multiple System Atrophy
- Muscle and Joint Pain
- Musculoskeletal Pain
- Myasthenia Gravis
- Neck Pain
- Nervous System Tumors
- Neurocritical Care
- Neurodegenerative Disorders
- Neurodiagnostics
- Neuropathic Pain
- Neurorehabilitation
- Occupational Therapy
- Osteoporosis and Vertebral Fracture
- Outpatient Rehabilitation
- Pain Management
- Palliative Care
- Parkinsonism
- Pelvic Floor Dysfunction
- Pelvic Rehabilitation
- Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
- Physical Therapy
- Post-Traumatic Orthopaedic Conditions
- Procedural/Interventional Pain Management
- Progressive Supranuclear Palsy
- Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy
- Regenerative Medicine
- Rheumatoid Arthritis
- Scheuermann's Kyphosis
- Scoliosis and Spinal Deformities
- Shoulder
- Sleep and Breathing Disorders
- Spasticity
- Speech Therapy
- Spina Bifida
- Spinal Cord Injury
- Spinal Stenosis
- Spinal Tumors
- Spine Disorders and Spine Surgery
- Spondylolisthesis
- Spondylosis
- Sports Elbow Injury
- Sports Hip and Thigh Injury
- Sports Knee and Lower Leg Injury
- Sports Medicine
- Sports Shoulder Care
- Stroke
- Transient Ischemic Attack
- Trauma and Fractures
- Traumatic Hand and Upper Extremity Injuries
- Vascular Malformations of the Brain
- Vestibular Disorders