Victims of accidents or patients suffering from debilitating conditions have to be rehabilitated to help them function in day-to-day life. Physical therapy is required to help them regain mobility, acquire flexibility, and achieve balance and coordination. Very often, they have to be taught to walk again.

Physiatrists are doctors who engage in physical rehabilitation. They are trained to treat disorders that affect the function of a patient and often succeed in bringing about miraculous recoveries where modern medicine alone may not. Through a combination of medication, exercises, and rehabilitative training, physiatrists help a patient improve daily function.

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