Three Israeli medical specialists here as delegates to the third International Congress of Physical Medicine are this week presenting reports at the largest gathering ever held of experts in treatment and rehabilitation of the handicapped.
The Israeli delegates are Dr. Emil Adler, Jerusalem, who is associate professor of physical medicine, Hebrew University, and director of physical medicine, Hadassah University Hospital; Dr. H. I. Weiser, of Tel Aviv, who is director of the Institute of Physical Medicine and Rheumatology, Hadassah Municipal Hospital, Tel Aviv, and Dr. Asher Ghiora, head of the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Workers’ Sick Fund, Tel Aviv.
The three Israeli presentations were described as important contributions among the estimated 100 scientific reports presented to the International Congress. Dr. Adler discussed a study made of 24 paraplegics and quadriplegics, with particular stress on the psychological and psychosomatic problems of their rehabilitation. Dr. Weiser reported on “vertigo of cervial origin.” He also served as chairman of the session on neuromuscular diseases. Dr. Ghiora presented a paper on physical therapy of facial paralysis.
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