Elsevier, a world-prime publisher of orderly, technical and medical information products and services, is thrilled to tell the January 2009 discharge of a new medical journal in partnership with the American Academy of Physical Pharmaceutical and Rehabilitation — PM&R, The documentation of injury, formality and rehabilitation (http://www.pmrjournal.org).
At the mercy of the guidance of Editor-in-Chief Stuart M. Weinstein, MD, Clinical Professor of Rehabilitation Remedy at the University of Washington, Seattle, and an internationally prominent Editorial Board, this monthly, associate-reviewed, profound publication has a clinical focus, presenting a deliberate of topics matching the way needs of the Academy membership and other common medical disciplines, as well as a wider global readership.
The Purple Journal (as it will be colloquially branded) is designed to get ahead education and impact the specialty of material physic and rehabilitation washing one’s hands of the timely execution of clinically fitting and evidence-based research and give one’s opinion of word. Coverage includes aware and long-lasting musculoskeletal disorders and pest, neurologic conditions involving the central and inessential nervous systems, rehabilitation of impairments associated with disabilities in adults and children, and neurophysiology and electrodiagnosis.
“We are a fledgling journal, but determine to make an existing contribution,” commented Dr. Weinstein. “Our goal over time is for this new roll to be viewed as an icon in this specialty, contributing to the advancement of physical medicine and rehabilitation on a global scale, raising the well-regulated bar and building bridges between practitioners and researchers across this multidisciplinary American football gridiron. Partnering with the right publisher is essential. That is why we are particularly pleased with the association with Elsevier, working together to grow this journal from its infancy.”
“When 8000 AAPM&R members be told PM&R as their official journal in January, it will impersonate the acquirement of a long-awaited object. The Academy will when all is said have a vehicle to along heinous-quality well-controlled contentedness on a monthly basis that specifically focuses on the needs of physiatrists in all practice settings. This scrapbook will be the cornerstone of our specialty and our confederacy.” adds Academy President David X. Cifu, MD.
The various sections of PM&R highlight original research including clinical trials and outcomes studies, clinically apt translational science, comprehensive and focused review articles, case presentations, point/counterpoint discussions and commentary, fair statutory topics, practice management updates, topical study guides, article and sentiment pieces, clinical pearls, emerging issues and letters to the editor. Continuing Medical Indoctrination opportunities payment AMA PRA Category 1 Credit are also offered.
The contributing authors and readership of PM&R embody the deviation of groups for whom this newsletter was developed. These tabulate clinicians and clinical researchers in the field of fleshly medicine and rehabilitation, in other medical specialties (such as neurology, rheumatology, geriatrics and spinal surgery) and practitioners in related disciplines (such as physical and occupational psychoanalysis, speech and idiom pathology and clinical psychology). PM&R will a duty as a vehicle to enhance the dissemination of medical understanding that will benefit people with acute and continuing impairments and disabilities.
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Article adapted by Medical Account Today from original converge release.
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Notes:
Read more at hand Editor-in-Chief Stuart M. Weinstein, MD, at http://www.aapmr.org/member/journal_editor.htm.
View the entire list of Editorial Game table members at http://www.pmrjournal.org/edboard.
Following is a selection of articles scheduled for the inaugural copy of PM&R (January 2009). Articles in beg appear prior to issues being released; they may be viewed at http://www.pmrjournal.org:
- Rehabilitation Needs of Combat-Injured Service Members Admitted to the VA Polytrauma Rehabilitation Centers: The Role of PM&R in the Care of Wounded Warriors
- Disparities in Stroke Rehabilitation: Results of a Study in an Integrated Health System in Northern California
- Intra-rater and Inter-rater Reliability of the Balance Error Scoring System (BESS)
- Interpretation of Contrast Dispersal Patterns by Experienced and Inexperienced Interventionalists
- Normal Motor NCS Using Surface Electrode Recording from the Supraspinatus, Infraspinatus, Deltoid and Biceps
- The Influence of Minority Status on Job Stability after Traumatic Brain Injury
- An Emerging Imaging Technology to Assist in the Localization of Axial Spine Pain
- Managing Agitation Associated with TBI: Behavioral vs Pharmacologic
About the American Academy of Physical Prescription and Rehabilitation (AAPM&R)
Founded in 1938 to treat musculoskeletal and neurological problems, AAPM&R (http://www.aapmr.org/) is the inhabitant medical specialty league of more than 7500 physical medicine and rehabilitation (PM&R) physicians, also called physiatrists. PM&R physicians keeping for patients with acute and chronic vexation, catastrophic injuries, musculoskeletal disorders, stand behind pain, and work- or sports-related injuries. They also paratactic the fancy term rehabilitation process for patients with spinal cord injuries, cancer, feat or other neurological disorders, brain injuries, amputations and multiple sclerosis.
About Elsevier
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Source: Herb Niemirow
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