Saint Mark's
Rehabilitation
Saint
Mark's Rehabilitation is committed to providing excellent and
comprehensive service to enhance the quality of life and promote
physical and mental wellness in all aspects of daily living. The
satisfaction of the consumer shall be paramount. Therefore, our focus
is placed upon patient care, professional ethics, consistent and
efficient operations, as well as flexibility and ingenuity for
adaptation to individual consumer needs and industry changes.
Patients
at Saint Mark's Rehabilitation are treated with the utmost care by a
knowledgeable staff of professionals with many years of experience in the
following:
Physical ways of healing people have been
practiced since prehistoric times, but Physiatry did not become recognized
as it's on medical specialty until 1947. Most widely known as the field of Rehabilitation and
Physical Medicine. Modern Day Physiatry combines the related
practices of Physical Medicine, Rehabilitation Medicine and
Electromyography.
The term Physiatry comes from the Greek
words physikos (physical) and iatreia (art of healing). A Physiatrist is a
physician who prescribes physical agents as well as other medical
therapeutics to help in the rehabilitation and healing of a patient.
Treatment involves the person, and explaining the physical, emotional and
social needs that must be satisfied to restore the patient's quality of
life to its highest potential.
Rehabilitation involves the restoration of
a injured, diseased, or disabled part.
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