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Rehabilitation Physician

💰 Earn $78K-$239K

📚 Doctoral or Professional Degree

⏱️ 48 Month Training

📈 2.5% Job Growth

Help patients regain independence and improve quality of life through rehabilitation.
Make a meaningful impact by restoring physical and mental well-being.
Unique blend of medical expertise and personalized patient care.

What Rehabilitation Physicians DoDiagnose and treat disorders requiring physiotherapy to provide physical, mental, and occupational rehabilitation.

Document examination results, treatment plans, and patients' outcomes.
Examine patients to assess mobility, strength, communication, or cognition.
Assess characteristics of patients' pain, such as intensity, location, or duration, using standardized clinical measures.
Provide inpatient or outpatient medical management of neuromuscular disorders, musculoskeletal trauma, acute and chronic pain, deformity or amputation, cardiac or pulmonary disease, or other disabling conditions.
Monitor effectiveness of pain management interventions, such as medication or spinal injections.

Rehabilitation Physicians Education, Salary, and Growth

Minimum EducationDoctoral or Professional Degree

Career ProspectsGood (Increasing by 1-5%)

Training TimeOver 4 years

Job Openings9,600 Annually

Median Earnings

$201,510 in California

$239,200 Nationally

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