Physiatrist: Who is it? What does he do? When to contact him?

and / or peripheral nerves.
The physiatrist's activity is aimed at the consequences of a given suffering of the locomotor system or peripheral nerves and is based on the use of non-surgical treatments, such as physiotherapy, drugs, radiofrequency ablation, postural gymnastics and " use of braces.
The physiatrist collaborates with various professional figures in the medical-health sector; for example, some of his potential collaborators are the neurologist, the rheumatologist, the physiotherapist, the pediatrician and the geriatrician.

(or striated muscles);

The skeletal system includes bones, cartilages (or cartilage tissue), joints and ligaments.

The skeletal muscle complex includes all muscles under voluntary control.

The musculoskeletal system essentially covers three functions:

• Offers support and support to the human body;
• Allows for locomotion and any type of body movement;
• Protects the internal vital organs.

Peripheral nerves

Fundamental elements of the peripheral nervous system, the peripheral nerves are the nerve structures that control the periphery of the body to the organs of the central nervous system, namely the brain and the spinal cord.
Peripheral nerves can be:

• Engines. Also known as motor neurons, motor nerves control muscles;
• Sensory. The sensory nerves control skin sensitivity in a given area of ​​the body;
• Mixed. Mixed nerves have a motor component and a sensory component.

peripheral, and their various consequences, resorting to non-surgical remedies such as - just to mention the main ones - physiotherapy, postural gymnastics, radiofrequency ablation, drugs and the use of braces.

The activity of the physiatrist aims to help the patient to fully or largely recover the functions of the musculoskeletal system or peripheral nerves that have been compromised following a pathology, injury or surgery, so that he can return to a normal life or almost normal.
The physiatrist does not intervene so much on the causes, but on the effects of an illness or an injury, with the ultimate aim of improving the overall situation.

To succeed in his intent, the physiatrist could act in person, if the conditions exist to do so, or make use of the support and skills of other medical-health figures (see the chapter dedicated to Collaborators).

It should be noted that, in some circumstances, the contribution of the physiatrist is not sufficient to guarantee healing: this is the case, for example, of all those conditions of the musculoskeletal system for which surgical intervention is necessarily required to be resolved (eg: anterior cruciate ligament of the knee).