Impact of Rehabilitation Team on Disability Among Stroke Patients

Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PMR) is a newer rapidly growing specialty in Bangladesh. Because of the improved primary care and acute care services people are living longer with a raised demand of hospitalizations of patients with disabilities resulting from trauma and disease conditions. There is necessity of developing a better service outlet of the patients withpain and paralysis in association of various disabilities. Patients undergoing comprehensive rehabilitation require the services of multiple health care providers who possess unique skills, training, and expertise that are employed for the full restoration of these patients' function and their optimal reintegration into all aspects of life. Assessment, treatment planning, and therapy are often provided by rehabilitation clinicians specializing in occupational therapy, physical therapy, prosthetics and orthotics, psychology and recreational therapy, speech and language pathology, rehabilitation nursing, social work, dietary science, case management, and others. Rapidly expanding Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) has been working as the center of excellence for patient managements and postgraduate medical education in Bangladesh. Rehabilitation Medicine wards Indoor services started during June 2015 and over a total of 600 patients were treated in the facilities so far. Rehabilitation team meeting occurs in the department of PMR in the many countries of the world. Still there is no team meeting in PMR department in our country. So we started Rehabilitation team meeting in our department in BSMMU for the wellbeing of the patient and this will increase the reputation of this University.