Multi-organ diseases
Cardiorespiratory failure, chronic kidney disease, liver disease – sarcopenia, low exercise tolerance; cardiorespiratory rehabilitation, nutrition, safely increasing activity.
The physiatrist determines contraindications and precautions (osteoporosis, vasculitis, cervical instability in RA, steroid myopathy), sets the goals of rehabilitation (preserving function, preventing contractures and fractures, pain control, education) and coordinates team care (rheumatologist, neurologist, dermatologist, pulmonologist, cardiologist…).
