When.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network

2. Barber surgeon - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barber_surgeon

   Barber surgeon. Franz Anton Maulbertsch's The Quack (c. 1785) shows barber surgeons at work. The barber surgeon, one of the most common European medical practitioners of the Middle Ages, was generally charged with caring for soldiers during and after battle. In this era, surgery was seldom conducted by physicians, but instead by barbers, who ...

3. Osteopathic medicine in the United States - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osteopathic_medicine_in...

   Physicians and surgeons who graduate from osteopathic medical schools are known as osteopathic physicians or osteopathic medical doctors. [3] Upon graduation, they are conferred a Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (DO) medical degree. [11] [12] [13] Osteopathic curricula in countries other than the United States differ from those in the United States.

4. Physical medicine and rehabilitation - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_medicine_and...

   Physical medicine and rehabilitation (PM&R), also known as physiatry, [1] is a branch of medicine that aims to enhance and restore functional ability and quality of life to people with physical impairments or disabilities. This can include conditions such as spinal cord injuries, brain injuries, strokes, as well as pain or disability due to ...

5. Orthopedic surgery - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthopedic_surgery

   Fields of. employment. Hospitals, Clinics. Orthopedic surgery or orthopedics (alternative spelling orthopaedics) is the branch of surgery concerned with conditions involving the musculoskeletal system. [1] Orthopedic surgeons use both surgical and nonsurgical means to treat musculoskeletal trauma, spine diseases, sports injuries, degenerative ...

6. Surgeon - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surgeon

   Surgeon. In medicine, a surgeon is a medical doctor who performs surgery. Even though there are different traditions in different times and places, a modern surgeon is a licensed physician and received the same medical training as physicians before specializing in surgery. In some countries and jurisdictions, the title of 'surgeon' is ...

7. Sports medicine - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sports_medicine

   Sports medicine physician, Sport and Exercise Medicine (SEM) physician. Sports medicine is a branch of medicine that deals with physical fitness and the treatment and prevention of injuries related to sports and exercise. Although most sports teams have employed team physicians for many years, it is only since the late 20th century that sports ...