Rehabilitation Medicine (RM) is the medical specialty concerned with restoring and improving function and wellbeing. It deals with patients who have reduced health, function, or pain, as a result of chronic disease, injury or illness, congenital disorder, disability or life circumstances. It builds on knowledge from internal medicine, incorporating a broad understanding of functional anatomy, psychosocial wellbeing, and recovery from surgery or illness. Rehabilitation medicine manages a diverse range of conditions and provides acute, integrated, preventative, and ongoing care to patients to improve their quality of life, including their function and cognition, and their ability to participate in work, recreation and social activities. It seeks to maintain health and prevent secondary complications. It looks at managing disability across physical, psychosocial and vocational domains, and services are coordinated with other medical, allied health and community services to support patient outcomes. RM treatments and therapies include therapeutic exercises, orthotics or prosthetics, and the use of other rehabilitation equipment and aids. RM involves both acute and chronic pain management, injury prevention, conditioning and fitness, non-surgical spine medicine, rehabilitation and management of occupational and sports injuries, and therapeutic and diagnostic injection techniques. Routine laboratory and imaging studies are used to guide diagnoses and evaluate musculoskeletal and neuromuscular systems. RM services are provided by multi-disciplinary teams in acute, outpatient and community settings, and can also involve telehealth and outreach programs.