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Specialty 24
Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation (PM&R)
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Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation (PM&R) — Atlas
This specialty validates a distinct constitutional property of accountability (Volume II). Its canonical case, obligation architecture, and constitutional relationships are transcribed from the ratified specialty corpus.
Active constitutional concepts
Constitutional specialty
Canonical case
Constitutional property
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Functional Rehabilitation Without Demonstrable Translation of Functional Goals into Executable, Measurable Obligations
Constitutional first cause
The patient acquires a functional deficit requiring rehabilitation.
Not the injury.
Not the surgery.
The functional loss.
Canonical Chain
Functional deficit identified.
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Baseline functional assessment.
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Patient goals elicited.
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Goals translated into measurable capabilities.
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Disciplines assigned.
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Therapy accepted.
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Progress measured.
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Goals revised.
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Capabilities verified.
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Transition to community.
Obligation architecture
The ratified corpus records this specialty’s canonical case but does not enumerate a step-by-step obligation architecture. The obligation chain will be rendered here when it is frozen in the corpus — no chain is fabricated (Constitution Article IV §15).
Constitutional observations
What The Engine makes visible
Every therapist may complete every visit.
Every physician may complete every note.
The patient may still never regain the specific capabilities necessary to return to independent life.
Why?
Because no one ever converted:
"Improve mobility"
into
"Walk safely 150 feet with a cane."
The accountability failure is not therapy.
It is the absence of operational definitions.
No worked demonstration is provisioned for this specialty in this build. Occupational Medicine (Specialty 25) is the first domain and carries the worked demonstration; the constitutional architecture above is shared across specialties.