What is Therapist-Client Privilege?

Rehabilitation therapists use drugs, exercise training, and equipment to help patients recover. Responsible for receiving rehabilitation counseling, functional examination and assessment, and arranging short-term rehabilitation training programs for patients. It is recommended that some conditional patients purchase intelligent rehabilitation equipment for long-term passive stretching exercises, prevent muscle atrophy, and promote or maintain disease. treatment.

Rehabilitation therapist

Rehabilitation therapists use drugs, exercise training, and equipment to help patients recover. Responsible for receiving rehabilitation consultation, functional examination and assessment, and arranging short-term rehabilitation training programs for patients. It is recommended that some conditional patients purchase intelligent rehabilitation equipment for long-term passive stretching exercises to prevent muscle atrophy and promote or maintain disease. ^[1]

Conduct professional functional examination and evaluation for the elderly, children, disabled, sub-healthy people and people with dysfunction, and based on the evaluation results, sign a short-term clinical rehabilitation project communication letter (short-term and long-term goals) with patients and their families, which will be targeted by the rehabilitation team Carry out a targeted treatment plan for the actual situation of the patient, prevent the atrophy and restore the patient's function to the greatest extent possible, and finally achieve the goal of returning to the family or society. Rehabilitation is a large category, which is further subdivided into medication, surgery, physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech swallowing therapy, rehabilitation psychotherapy, and rehabilitation engineering. Because domestic rehabilitation is still in its infancy, most of the rehabilitation personnel training in China has not been subdivided, and is classified into the rehabilitation therapy profession.

Rehabilitation function evaluation, determination of rehabilitation goals, formulation of rehabilitation plan, implementation of treatment plan, rehabilitation evaluation throughout the treatment, in order to maximize the recovery of patient function.

Cooperate with clinicians to determine the treatment method, intensity and course of treatment, prevent error accidents, and do medical safety work;

Pay attention to observe the condition, treatment effect and response, and deal with it in time if there is a reaction;

Responsible for the development and training of functional related courses;

Do a good job in rehabilitation education, guide patients and their families to master some of the independent rehabilitation training, understand precautions, and prevent complications.

Differences among hospitals, units or institutions

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There are less than 20,000 rehabilitation technicians of various types in the country, of which there are only more than 5,000 rehabilitation therapists, most of whom have been transferred from other disciplines such as neurology, nursing and traditional Chinese medicine. The number of rehabilitation therapists trained in China each year is only 700. The shortage of rehabilitation talents is the "bottleneck" that restricts the development of China's rehabilitation medicine cause. It is estimated that by 2015, China will need at least 350,000 rehabilitation technicians.

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It is understood that rehabilitation doctors do not yet have professional vocational certification, only relevant qualification certification exams. At present, there are no rehabilitation doctors in China. Most of the existing "rehabilitation doctors" are transferred from clinical or traditional Chinese medicine doctors to the rehabilitation department. Rehabilitation physicians must first undergo five years of clinical study and then three years of rehabilitation medicine. Obtain the qualification certificate of national practicing physician (attending), and then apply for the deputy chief rehabilitation physician and chief rehabilitation physician according to the qualifications.

Rehabilitation (medicine) divisions can participate in the National Rehabilitation (medical) division series of professional title examinations.

Training college

East China Normal University, North China University of Technology, Suzhou Health Vocational and Technical College, Changsha Civil Vocational and Technical College, Hunan University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Hangzhou Wanxiang Vocational and Technical College, Hainan Medical College, Jining Medical College, Binzhou Medical College, Jiamusi University, Harbin Medical University , Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Heilongjiang University of Chinese Medicine, Hubei College of Medicine, Changzhi Medical College, Wuhan Light Industry University, Guangdong Medical University, Guangzhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Guangdong University of Medicine, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Luzhou Medical College, Fujian University of Traditional Chinese Medicine North China University of Technology, Southern Medical University, Sichuan University, Sun Yat-sen University, Wenzhou Medical College, Nanjing Medical University, Xuzhou Medical College, Nantong University, Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Capital Medical University, Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Heze Medical College, Heze Housekeeping Vocational College, Mudanjiang Medical College, Gannan Medical College, Liaocheng Vocational and Technical College, Hubei Vocational and Technical College, Ezhou Vocational University, Three Gorges Vocational and Technical College, Wuhan Civil Vocational College, Shandong Union College, Shandong Modern College, Xinxiang Medical College, Qi School of Medicine and other colleges and universities.