Stucki G, Reinhardt JD, Imamura M, Li J, De Lisa JA,

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Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine (PRM) is the Medicine of Functioning in light of health conditions, under consideration of the person and in interaction with the environment. PRM focuses on the application of rehabilitation, the third health strategy which complements the preventive and curative health strategies. Thanks to the increasing survival of people after injury and formerly conditions as well as aging populations and an associated increase in chronic conditions, PRM as the leader of the rehabilitation will, over the next decades, assume an ever more important role in the health care systems worldwide.

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1. Stucki G, Reinhardt JD, Imamura M, Li J, De Lisa JA. Developing the International Society of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine (ISPRM): Following Through. Special Report. J Rehabil Med 2010; doi: 10.2340/16501977-0661.

2. DeLisa JA, Melvin JL, Stucki G. Developing the International Society of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine. Foreword. J Rehabil Med 2009; 41: 789-790.