Outpatient physical rehabilitation

Our outpatient rehabilitation programs include physical, occupational and speech therapy. We provide specialized services and custom treatment plans to ensure you receive the individualized care you need to return home quickly.

Physical therapy

Our physical therapy program is designed to help correct and prevent short- or long-term movement problems that affect the ability to function in everyday activities. Our physical therapists may use a combination of techniques to promote optimum health and functionality, including:

• Balance and endurance training
• Education to help maintain and build on progress
• Exercise and strength training
• Gait training to learn how to walk without further injury
• Joint mobilization
• Manual therapy, such as massage or the manipulation of muscles by a therapist
• Training to use a prosthetic device, walker, crutches or wheelchair

Occupational therapy

Our occupational therapy program helps increase independence by restoring the skills needed for daily activities and self-care. Your therapy will take place in a safe and caring environment that encourages growth and recovery.

To help you improve in areas such as eating, dressing, bathing, working and cooking, our occupational therapists may include the following techniques in your treatment plan:

• Adaptive equipment usage
• Cognitive retraining
• Energy conservation
• Gross and fine motor control
• Sensory integration
• Visual-perceptual training

Speech and swallowing therapies

We offer speech and swallowing therapies to help treat conditions that impair your ability to speak, swallow or reason. Our speech-language pathologists use advanced, specialized equipment and work with ear, nose and throat physicians (otolaryngologists) to provide the best care possible.

Many of our hospitals offer specialized rehab programs for patients with certain medical disorders or who have experienced a stroke or heart attack. To help patients regain functionality and get back to the activities they enjoy, our specialized rehab programs use a combination of therapies, such as:

• Amputation rehab
• Brain injury rehab
• Burn recovery rehab
• Cancer rehab
• Cardiac rehab
• Cognitive rehab
• Concussion management and prevention
• Hand and upper extremity rehab
• Industrial (work-related) rehab
• Lymphedema therapy
• Multi-trauma rehab
• Neurological treatment and rehab
• Orthopedic care and rehab
• Pelvic floor rehab
• Pediatric treatment and rehab
• Spine therapy
• Spinal cord injury
• Sports medicine
• Stroke treatment and rehab
• Traumatic brain injury (TBI) rehab
• Wound therapy