Physiatry is the medical specialisation that deals with the recovery of the main neuromotor and cognitive functions that patients may have lost, at differing rates, following surgery, trauma or disease.
Physiatry at Paideia International Hospital in Rome
The Physiatry Unit at Paideia in Rome is the medical specialisation that deals with the recovery of the main neuromotor and cognitive functions that patients may have lost, at differing rates, following surgery, trauma or disease. Physiatry relies on the collaboration of teams of health professionals, in particular the expert physiotherapist, to whom the patient is referred after a correct clinical diagnosis and the formulation of a precise rehabilitation programme.
At Paideia International Hospital, you can find rehabilitation services for treating disabilities resulting from diseases of the nervous system and musculoskeletal system, according to an integrated therapeutic approach.
Physiatry, what we do:
- Rehabilitation of musculoskeletal pathologies (traumatic, overload, degenerative)
- Rehabilitation in sports (therapeutic muscle strengthening exercises, muscle injuries, capsular ligament injuries)
- Rehabilitation of patients with acute and degenerative nerve diseases (stroke outcomes, Parkinson's disease)
- Rehabilitation of patients with spondylolisthesis (cervicalgia, back pain, lumbosciatica)
- Rehabilitation of patients with arthrosis
- Rehabilitation in patients with osteoporosis
- Rehabilitation of rheumatic diseases
- Rehabilitation in complex regional pain syndrome
- Rehabilitation of patients with traumatic brain injury and other severe acquired brain injuries
- Gait analysis
- Developmental rehabilitation (scoliosis, flat foot, infantile cerebral palsy)
- Pelvic floor rehabilitation
- Rehabilitation of patients with heart conditions
- Pulmonary rehabilitation
- Rehabilitation of patients with phlebolymphedema
Injection techniques
Injection techniques in physical medicine and rehabilitation are:
- Intra-articular and periarticular injections with and without ultrasound guidance
- Trigger point injections
- Mesotherapy
- Oxygen-ozone therapy
- Nerve blocks
Interventional physiatry
Interventional physiatry is the branch of physical medicine and rehabilitation that, as part of a comprehensive rehabilitation project, helps to treat various problems of the osteoarticular and myotendinous system through injective procedures in different body parts (spine, shoulder, elbow, wrist, hand, hip, knee, ankle, foot).
The most common conditions that can be treated with interventional physiatry are:
Conditions treated with spinal physiatry:
- Cervicalgia
- Cervicobrachial syndrome
- PMID (painful minor intervertebral dysfunction)
- Dorsalgia
- Lower back pain
- Lumbosciatica
- Sacroiliitis
- Facet joint syndrome
- Segmental cellulo teno perisoteio myalgic syndrome
Conditions treated with shoulder and elbow physiatry
- Shoulder calcific tendonitis
- Epicondylitis and epitrocleitis
- Impingement syndrome
- Adhesive capsulitis- frozen shoulder
- Supraspinatus tendinopathy
Physiatry and the conditions treated for the hand and wrist
- Trigger finger
- Dupuytren's disease
- Rizoarthrosis
- Carpal tunnel syndrome
- De Quervain's tenosynovitis
Hip problems treated with physiatry:
- Trochanteric bursitis
- Coxarthrosis
- Pubalgia
- Femoroacetabular impingement syndrome
- Piriformis syndrome
Knee conditions:
- Gonarthrosis
- Iliotibial band syndrome
- Patellofemoral syndrome
- Patellar tendonitis (jumper's knee)
- Pes anserine bursitis
The ankle problems we deal with at the Physiatry unit:
- Ankle arthrosis
- Ankle sprains
- Achilles tendon pathologies
Foot conditions treated:
- Arthritic hallux rigidus
- Plantar fasciitis
- Metatarsalgia
- Haglund's syndrome
- Morton's Neuroma
