Rehabilitation Medicine AI
Benchmarking Large Language Models Against Human Experts in Rehabilitation Medicine: A Multidimensional Evaluation
The rising demand for rehabilitation services, coupled with a shortage of specialized professionals, presents a significant challenge. AI, particularly Large Language Models (LLMs), offers a promising solution to enhance clinical efficiency. This research directly compares LLMs to human experts in real-world clinical tasks, providing a robust evaluation framework.
Executive Summary
This study systematically benchmarks five state-of-the-art Large Language Models (LLMs) against senior physiatrists in formulating comprehensive rehabilitation plans for authentic clinical cases. Quantitative analysis reveals that top-tier LLMs like Grok-4 and Gemini-2.5-pro significantly outperformed human experts in overall plan quality and safety, demonstrating superior consistency and risk mitigation. The open-source DeepSeek-r1 also showed a statistically significant advantage over human experts. However, qualitative analysis highlighted that human experts excelled in strategic pathway design, clinical insights, technical specificity (including Traditional Chinese Medicine integration), and humanistic patient-centered care. The findings suggest a human-AI collaboration paradigm where LLMs act as efficient 'executors' for drafting preliminary plans, allowing human experts to focus on 'strategic' optimization and humanistic care, thereby enhancing rehabilitation service quality.
4.31
Grok-4 Mean Score (Overall Performance)
3.56
Human Expert Mean Score (Overall Performance)
80%
Top-tier LLM High-Quality Plan Probability
48
Authentic Clinical Cases Evaluated
Deep Analysis & Enterprise Applications
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Top-Tier LLMs Outperform Experts
Grok-4 and Gemini-2.5-pro significantly surpassed human experts (P < 0.001) in overall rehabilitation plan quality, demonstrating superior consistency and risk mitigation.
| Model | Overall Score | Safety (C&S) | Scientific Rigor (S&E) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grok-4 | 4.31 (1) | 4.46 (1) | 4.22 (1) |
| Gemini-2.5-pro | 4.14 (2) | 4.22 (2) | 4.09 (2) |
| DeepSeek-r1 | 3.69 (4) | 3.79 (4) | 3.67 (4) |
| Human Expert | 3.56 (5) | 3.56 (5) | 3.59 (5) |
| Claude-opus-4 | 3.50 (6) | 3.54 (6) | 3.50 (6) |
Comparative performance across key dimensions shows top LLMs consistently leading. DeepSeek-r1 also outperformed human experts statistically.
Domain Specificity
Top-tier LLMs maintained a leading position across almost all subspecialties, demonstrating pervasive advantage. DeepSeek-r1 ranked consistently in the middle tier across most specialties.
Neurological Rehabilitation Excellence
The open-source model DeepSeek-r1 ranked third in the complex domain of 'Neurological Rehabilitation' and outperformed the human expert. This demonstrates the feasibility of cost-effective AI deployment even in challenging clinical scenarios.
LLMs Excel at Standardization
LLMs defaulted to a globally dominant Western medical paradigm, providing standard, evidence-based rehabilitation plans applicable worldwide.
Human Experts: Strategic Path & Humanistic Care
Human experts demonstrated superior ability to design dynamic, multi-stage, and interdisciplinary Clinical Pathways, incorporating culturally-specific modalities like Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), and delivering profoundly patient-centered care. This was evident in cases like dysphagia where human experts structured interventions into theme-based phases with clear time-based progression, contrasting with LLMs' functional domain organization.
Human-AI Collaboration Paradigm
LLM as 'Executor'
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Draft Preliminary Plan
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Human Expert as 'Strategist'
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Review & Optimize Plan
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