2. Equipment presumptively nonmedical. Equipment which is primarily and customarily used for a nonmedical purpose may not be considered âmedicalâ equipment for program payment even though the item has some remote medically related use.
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PM&R) physicians, also known as physiatrists, treat a wide variety of medical conditions affecting the brain, spinal cord, nerves, bones, joints, ligaments, muscles, and tendons.
A sports medicine physician is a doctor who specializes in taking care of people who have sports injuries. Sports injuries are injuries that people acquire from playing sports, exercising, or from otherwise being physically active. For example, when an athlete sprains their ankle during a game, they will go see a sports medicine physician.