· Location: Rehabilitation Medicine Outpatient Clinic, 3rd Floor, East Building, Busan Veterans Hospital
· Department Head: Song Yang-ju
· Contact Number: 051-601-6191
· Examination and treatment procedure
After registration at the administration desk, examination and treatment by the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, payment should be made at the administration desk.
(Administration desk registration → Rehabilitation Medicine examination → Treatment → Administration desk payment)

The Department of Rehabilitation Medicine at Busan Veterans Hospital opened the Rehabilitation Medicine Center on the 3rd floor of the East Building in June 2011 with the completion of the new East Building. It is comprised of an information station and waiting room, 1st and 2nd examination rooms, Electromyography room, heat therapy room, exercise therapy room, traction therapy room, balance testing room, Extracorporeal Shock Wave Therapy room, hydrotherapy room, occupational therapy room, ADL room, and rehabilitation gymnasium within a 1,488 square meter facility (450 pyung). A total of 15 personnel, including 2 medical specialists, physical therapists, occupational therapists, and rehabilitation physical education teachers, are united in providing the best patient care. Major equipment includes the latest electromyography machine for examining neuromuscular paralysis. Physical therapy facilities include an Extracorporeal Shock Wave Therapy machine, interference wave therapy machine, ultrasound therapy machine, short-wave therapy machine, bubble base, traction machine, paraffin treatment, and other latest rehabilitation exercise equipment, striving to improve the quality of medical care for veteran families with the latest medical equipment and facilities.

Concepts of Rehabilitation Medicine and Physical Medicine Rehabilitation means restoration from a state of destruction or bankruptcy due to bankruptcy or disaster, and human rehabilitation refers to the return of a patient to society as a social being, or as a whole human being, by including medical treatment for physical or mental illnesses, as well as functional recovery, psychological, social, and vocational aspects of treatment.

Rehabilitation medicine refers to the medicine that treats patients to recover their maximum function—physically, mentally, socially, or vocationally—to live as close to a normal life in society as possible. Physical medicine refers to the medicine that uses physical elements such as heat, light, water, electricity, or mechanical mechanisms like force and kinetics as treatment modalities, which are applied as treatment styles of rehabilitation medicine.

1.Rehabilitation of spinal cord injury
Patients with spinal cord injuries of the central nervous system have problems such as difficulty performing activities of daily living due to quadriplegia or paraplegia, urination and defecation disorders, depression due to spinal cord injury, family conflicts, and role distribution. Rehabilitation for spinal cord injury minimizes disability in performing activities of daily living, treats urination and defecation disorders through medication and bladder training, provides rehabilitation exercise treatment after evaluating each patient's condition, and enables social activities by having the patient wear assistive devices according to their condition.

2. Rehabilitation of stroke and brain injury patients
Stroke and brain injury patients suffer from hemiplegia, quadriplegia, and complex mental disorders, resulting in gait impairment and various difficulties in performing activities of daily living, language disorders, mental disorders, and visual impairment. Rehabilitation treatment for stroke and brain injury strives to improve muscle weakness and gait impairment through physical therapy, exercise therapy, medication, and assistive devices, and minimizes these impairments in daily life.

3. Treatment and rehabilitation of low back pain patients
Low back pain is a common disease affecting 80-90% of people during their lifetime, and it holds a significant portion in the field of rehabilitation physical therapy. Rehabilitation physical therapy treats low back pain by identifying its cause and applying heat therapy, traction therapy, manual therapy, and exercise, while preventive exercise helps prevent recurrence of low back pain and enables return to social life.

4. Treatment and rehabilitation of musculoskeletal disorders
The purpose of treating musculoskeletal disorders, such as shoulder and arm pain often seen in the shoulder, muscle disorders of the buttocks and lower limbs, and physical therapy after fractures, is to relieve muscle stiffness and reduce pain by applying heat therapy, hydrotherapy, electrical therapy, and exercise therapy, and to treat physical abnormalities caused by musculoskeletal lesions to restore the body to normal or near-normal function, enabling return to society.

5. Prosthetics, Orthotics Clinic
The Prosthetics and Orthotics Center is doing its best to help patients with disabilities due to damage to body parts such as the spine, brain, arms and legs caused by traffic accidents, industrial accidents, wars, or other accidents, return to society as much as possible by manufacturing and fitting orthotics and prosthetics and providing training to the patients.

6. Nerve conduction and electromyography examination
This is an examination for nerve and muscle diseases, and our hospital has purchased the latest model equipment, which is performed directly by a specialist who interprets the results. Indications for this examination include peripheral neuropathy, lumbar radiculopathy, congenital myasthenia, and polyneuropathy caused by diabetes or other causes, and it is an examination for differential diagnosis of these diseases.