The main duty of rehabilitation therapists is to provide physical therapy and occupational therapy for patients in comprehensive rehabilitation treatment and promote their rehabilitation. The main task is to use body movement and various physical factors (electricity, light, heat, cold, water, magnetism, force, etc.). ) as a therapeutic means to evaluate and treat neuromuscular and joint motor function and relieve pain.
What is the difference between rehabilitation medicine and massage?
1, theory
Massage is mainly based on the theory of meridians and acupoints in traditional Chinese medicine, and it is treated with bare hands; Modern rehabilitation is based on modern medicine such as human anatomy and neuroscience.
2. Method
Massage patients are mostly passive treatment. Usually, it means that doctors use their own hands to act on the patient's body surface, injured parts, uncomfortable places, specific acupoints and painful places, and specifically use various methods such as pushing, taking, pressing, rubbing, pointing and patting to achieve the functions of dredging meridians, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, healing and relieving pain, eliminating pathogenic factors and strengthening the body resistance, and reconciling yin and yang.
Most modern rehabilitation patients take the initiative to participate in treatment. Rehabilitation pays more attention to manipulation, and patients actively participate in sports rehabilitation. In foreign countries, rehabilitation is to help people improve their dysfunction caused by injury, disability and disease to the maximum extent through exercise training, manual therapy, health education and guidance. The goal of rehabilitation is to return patients to society and family.