Job Description

Overview

We are looking for a Full or Part Time Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Physician to join our team at Trust Point Behavioral Hospital in Murfreesboro Tennessee.

TrustPoint Hospital is a state-of-the-art treatment center that provides an array of medical and psychiatric services on both an inpatient and outpatient basis. Our quiet yet convenient location in Murfreesboro Tennessee offers exceptional care to patients who require acute physical medicine and rehabilitation adult adolescent and geriatric psychiatry and medical psychiatry.

Overview

Evaluates and treats patients with disorders or disabilities in the muscles bones and nervous system including neck or back pain sports and work injuries stroke brain injury spinal cord injury spasticity and any other disability or disorder that affects function.

For more details please contact - or call/text 615.861.7581

Responsibilities

• Document examination results treatment plans and patients outcomes.
• Examine patients to assess mobility strength communication or cognition.
• Assess characteristics of patients pain such as intensity location or duration using standardized clinical measures.
• Provide inpatient or outpatient medical management of neuromuscular disorders musculoskeletal trauma acute and chronic pain deformity or amputation cardiac or pulmonary disease or other disabling conditions.
• Monitor effectiveness of pain management interventions such as medication or spinal injections.
• Develop comprehensive plans for immediate and long-term rehabilitation including therapeutic exercise; speech and occupational therapy; counseling; cognitive retraining; patient family or caregiver education; or community reintegration.
• Coordinate physical medicine and rehabilitation services with other medical activities.
• Perform electrodiagnosis including electromyography nerve conduction studies or somatosensory evoked potentials of neuromuscular disorders or damage.
• Prescribe physical therapy to relax the muscles and improve strength.
• Consult or coordinate with other rehabilitative professionals including physical and occupational therapists rehabilitation nurses speech pathologists neuropsychologists behavioral psychologists social workers or medical technicians.
• Prescribe therapy services such as electrotherapy ultrasonography heat or cold therapy hydrotherapy debridement short-wave or microwave diathermy and infrared or ultraviolet radiation to enhance rehabilitation.
• Instruct interns and residents in the diagnosis and treatment of temporary or permanent physically disabling conditions.
• Diagnose or treat performance-related conditions such as sports injuries or repetitive motion injuries.
• Prescribe orthotic and prosthetic applications and adaptive equipment such as wheelchairs bracing or communication devices to maximize patient function and self-sufficiency.
• Conduct physical tests such as functional capacity evaluations to determine injured workers capabilities to perform the physical demands of their jobs.

Qualifications

Qualifications:

• Medical Degree (MD or DO): Graduation from an accredited medical school.
• Board Certified in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PM&R).

Licenses/Certifications

• Current license to practice medicine by the state in which the facility(s) operates.
• Additional specific DEA credentials may be required per state and facility regulations or policy.

Acadia Heathcare Network

23500 Employees 11400 Beds 258 Locations 38 States 1 Network

As a leading provider of behavioral healthcare services in the United States and Puerto Rico Acadia Healthcare operates 258 treatment facilities across 38 states. Our network of treatment facilities offers multiple levels of care for various behavioral health and substance use disorders. At Acadia our primary goal is to meet patients where theyre at in their treatment process. We do this by providing a multitude of levels of care including detoxification residential treatment for substance use residential treatment for dual diagnosis acute psychiatric inpatient hospitalization medication-assisted treatment (MAT) services and an array of outpatient programming options ranging from partial hospitalization programs (PHPs) and intensive outpatient programs (IOPs) to traditional outpatient services. Our expansive network of treatment facilities creates greater access to care reduces the stigma associated with mental illness and substance use and offers those in our communities a safe environment in which to receive the treatment they need.

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