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Clinical Session Proposals

Cancer Rehabilitation

Session Name: You CAN Do It: Tips for Incorporating Cancer Rehabilitation into Your Existing PM&R Practice

2 - Pearls and Precautions: Applying Physiatric Principles to Cancer Patients

Saturday, October 22, 2022

10:00 AM – 11:15 AM ET

Location: 339-342

Speaker(s)

Raul A. Rosario-Concepcion, MD

Assistant Professor
Mayo Clinic - Florida
Jacksonville, Florida

Disclosure: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

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The faculty will discuss cancer rehabilitation pearls and precautions for common cancer populations including basic impairment seen in cancer patients. We will focus on how general PM&R skills can be leveraged to provide timely and appropriate care for cancer survivors, including how EMG and musculoskeletal ultrasound can be used for diagnostic and interventional applications.
Learning Objectives:
Discuss how the general physiatrist can provide a variety of necessary survivorship services, ranging from coordination of care to complex diagnostic, pharmacological, and procedural interventions to improve survivors’ quality of life.
Review cancer rehabilitation pearls and precautions for common cancer populations
Review how general PM&R skills such as EMG and musculoskeletal ultrasound can be used for diagnostic and interventional applications.