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    Departments
    The Section of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PM&R) of Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital Tainan Branch has its beginning in the 1990’s and has remained a comprehensive health care provider in Tainan. Our professional team workers compose of two doctors, five physical therapists, one physical therapy assistant, two occupational therapists, one occupational therapy assistant and one speech therapist. We offer quality medical care and rehabilitation for patients with various disabilities. Over the past twenty years, we have developed treatment programs in specialties such as stroke, brain injury, spinal cord injury, musculoskeletal, return to work, chronic pain, and sports injury. We also provide consultation and diagnostic services with a variety of technologic examinations. Each patient here is evaluated by a physiatrist, who then works with the referring physician and the rehabilitation team to design and implement individualized plan of care. The evaluation includes functional assessment, evaluation for adaptive equipment, contracture prevention, skin management, bowel/bladder education and training, and prognosis of ultimate outcome. With the participation of the patients and their family, our physicians and therapists work as a team to assist those living with disabilities to achieve functional independence and a better quality of life.
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    Faculty
    1. Attending Physicians:
      *Chief Attending Physician. Dr. Wang, I-Chou
      *Attending Physician. Dr. Jang, Rong-Fong
    2. Physical Therapists:
      * Chair Therapist. Huang Li-Rung
      *Therapists. Wen, Shu-Ying. Wang, Yu-Fen. Lin, Wan-Chin. Chung, Jo-Chi. Chuang, His-Yuan. Chen, Chia-Hsing.
    3. Occupational Therapists:
      * Chair Therapist. Wu Chien-hsien.
      * Therapist.  Kuo, Cheng-Yuan. Su, Ching-Yu.
    4. Speech Therapists: Pai, Hsin-Yu.
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    Our Doctors
    * Dr. Wang, I-chou
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    Physical Therapy Services
    The physical therapy serves patients with physical evaluations, treatments and education. According to the physical therapy, we can find the symptom and sign that disturb our body with the pain, numbness, soreness, paresthesia, muscle weakness, joint stiffness, motor control dysfunction, and ADL limitation. Further we solve them, improve the dysfunction, and prevent them from happening again. The subjects we provide orthopedic physical therapy for people with sports injury, amputee, frozen shoulder, scoliosis, osteoarthritis, and others after surgery. The neurological physical therapy serves patient such as traumatic brain injury, spinal cord injury, cerebral vessel accident, peripheral neuropathy, Parkinson’s disease, and others like vestibular dysfunction, etc. Our physical therapists treat patients with the modality, manual therapy and exercise therapy. We also provide patient home programs, and consultant service to help the patients change their ADL habit and improve their quality of life.
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    Occupational Therapy Services
    Occupational therapy in our Section provides designed purposeful activities for the neurological patient. The occupational therapist designs personal-made functional activities for every patient according to the occupational evaluations. With these activities, the patients can regain their functional capacity deprived from their disease. They can also obtain other methods to substitute their lost function. Via the occupational treatment, we expect the patients to reduce their dysfunction and reaccommodate themselves to the family and the society. The neurological occupational therapy serves patients with traumatic brain injury, spinal cord injury, cerebral vessel accident; peripheral neuropathy, other degenerative disease and others like whom need orthosis, etc.
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    Services
    1. Orthopedic Conditions
      Fracture, Arthritis, Amputee, Joint Reconstruction, Sports and Recreation Injury.
    2. Neurological Conditions
      Stroke, Brain Injury, Spinal Cord Injury, Degenerative Neurological Disease (E.G. Parkinson's Disease), and Peripheral Neuropathy.
    3. Pediatric Conditions
      Cerebral Palsy, Development Delay, Congenital Deformity.
    4. Cardiac and Pulmonary Conditions
      Heart Failure, Heart Transplantation, Post-Surgery Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.
    5. Chronic Pain
      Cervical Pain, Low Back Pain, Cumulative and Occupational Injury.
    6. Other Conditions
      Geriatric Rehabilitation, Burn Injury.
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    Patient Information
    * OPD times: 08:45 ~11:30; 14:00 ~ 17:00
    * Therapy times: 08:00 ~ 12:00; 13:30 ~ 17:00
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    Contact Us
    If you have further questions, please contact with our Out Patient Department (OPD).
    * Tel: 886-6-312-5101 ext 1940
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