The mission of the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation is to provide excellent clinical care, education, and research in the field of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, leading to optimum quality of life for individuals with physical disabilities.

Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation focuses on restoration of the body and mind after trauma or disease has occurred. In some cases the restoration is ongoing and the goal is to teach the patient how to live and cope with the effects of pain, or lack of function, and lead a full and productive life to the greatest extent possible.

Clinically, restoration and rehabilitation can be accomplished in different ways. Our philosophy is to assess a patient's bio/psycho/social needs and determine which diagnostic and treatment methods will provide the patient with the highest level of functional outcome. The approach is often inter-disciplinary.

Academically, we teach medical students basic treatment and assessment techniques and methods used in rehabilitation, along with advanced knowledge of anatomy. We train residents in the practice of physiatry and the diagnostic art of electromyography (EMG). We also offer a fellowship program to physicians desiring a refined knowledge of EMG and pain management.

Explore this website and meet our department members; learn about our residency training program and other academic endeavors; investigate out the research projects completed and underway, and observe our COM clinical practices.

This is Mary Free Bed at Sparrow


Sparrow Hospital and Mary Free Bed Rehabilitation Hospital have joined together to create Mary Free Bed at Sparrow, a joint venture providing advanced inpatient rehabilitation care for mid-Michigan patients. The rehabilitation unit at Sparrow includes 40 private patient rooms and two therapy gymnasiums. Enjoy this Grand Opening video, and hear directly from the first patients to benefit from our collaboration.

Congratulations to AAPM&R's 2018 Awards Recipients!

Please join us and the Awards Committee in congratulating this year’s awards recipients, who will be honored at the 2018 AAPM&R Annual Assembly.

  • Frank H. Krusen, MD Lifetime Achievement Award: Naomi Lynn Gerber, MD, FAAPMR
  • Distinguished Member Award: James T. McDeavitt, MD, FAAPMR
  • Distinguished Clinician Award: Howard Liss, MD, FAAPMR; Michael F. Saulino, MD, PhD, FAAPMR; Faye Chiou-Tan, MD, FAAPMR
  • Distinguished Public Service Award: Michael T. Andary, MD, MS, FAAPMR
  • PASSOR Legacy Award and Lectureship: Michael B. Furman, MD, FAAPMR

2nd Place Award Winning Poster, Mid-Michigan Research Day

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Electrodiagnostic Evidence of Berrettini Anastomosis

Madeleine E. Seidel, Geoffrey K. Seidel, David Hakopian,k Erich Hornbach, and Michael Andaryk

Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, U.S.A.; Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine, Auburn Hills, Michigan, U.S.A.; Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, School of Medicine Wayne State University Detroit, Michigan, U.S.A.; Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Michigan State University, College of Osteopathic Medicine, East Lansing, Michigan, U.S.A.; Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Michigan State University, College of Osteopathic Medicine, East Lansing, Michigan, U.S.A., and Michigan State University, College of Osteopathic Medicine, East Lansing, Michigan, U.S.A.

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Failings in public support, medical industry, started opioid crisis in '90s, doctor says

JACKSON, MI - A doctor speaking at this year's drug summit said identifying what led the country into the opioid crisis it's in today is not hard if you know history.

"This is just not now a problem, it's a problem that has been brewing for 20 years," said keynote speaker, Dr. Matthew Saffarian, an interventional spine, EMG and sports medicine physician for Michigan State University.

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Acute Mercury Intoxication in an Adolescent Male

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Acute Mercury Intoxication in an Adolescent Male

Joshua Nicholson, DO, Rani Gebara, DO, Zachary Dyme, MD, and Michael Andary, MD

Michigan State University – College of Osteopathic Medicine Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

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