The department provides comprehensive, interdisciplinary medical rehabilitation for patients with disabilities resulting from illness or accident. The goal is towards optimal functional ability and mobility, enabling a discharge home, reintegration into the family and society.

Candidates for Rehabilitation Medicine include:

• Neurologic
  Stroke, spinal cord injury, traumatic brain injury, neural infections and degeneration, Parkinson's, motor neuron diseases, myopathies
  
  
• Orthopaedic
  Fractures, joint-replacements, musculoskeletal injuries, amputations, back surgeries
  
  
• Medical
  Cardiac, pulmonary, arthritis and connective tissue diseases, cancer, general deconditioning, chronic pain
  
  
• Surgical
  Amputations, general deconditioning/debility