[AMP-L] physiatrist

[Shirley Paul]

Hi CArol, you wrote - 

>The BEST physician, I think, for those of us
>dealing with multiple issues, is a physiatrist, a doctor of Physical
>Medicine and Rehabilitation. In my experience, both professionally and
>personally, physiatrists understand disability and the implications of
>secondary conditions. They look at a person in a global way, seeing how all
>of these factors (strength, flexibility, secondary conditions, etc.) are
>integrated and how they affect your function. I would trust my physiatrist
>before any other specialty.>

I know of physiatrists through my expereince with post-polio syndrome,
as they're THE ones to see for us with that condition.

Thanks,

Shirley in VA