Rehabilitative Care is an important part of the healthcare process and is designed to help patients recover from a disability, drug problem, illness, or injury.  The different types of rehabilitative care cover areas, such as physical and cognitive therapy.

Rehabilitation Care Types

  • Physical Therapy
    • In order to improve the patient’s quality of life, physical therapy is used by utilizing manual therapy, education, exercise and manipulation to name a few.  The goal is improve strength, mobility, function and movement.
  • Occupational Therapy
    • Occupational Therapy is therapy that is used to help patients’ function in various occupations by improving their physical and cognitive skills after an injury.
  • Audiologic (Hearing) Rehabilitation
    • Hearing Rehabilitation teaches patients to learn how to hear again after hearing loss.  Not only does the training and treatment help the person get used to their hearing loss, it also teaches them to use amplified hearing aids and other devices to improve hearing.
  • Speech, Voice and Swallowing Rehabilitation
    • A type of rehabilitation that provides therapy for a patient that has speech, language or swallowing issues.  The licensed professional will evaluate the person and provide a treatment plan to help with swallowing disorders, cognition, language, voice, stuttering and articulation.
  • Respiratory Therapy
    • Respiratory therapy is a type of therapy that assesses patients that have a cardiopulmonary/pulmonary disease and develop a proper treatment plan.  Since these patients have trouble breathing, a Respiratory Therapist administers drugs for the lungs and manages the patient’s oxygen and ventilation.
  • Cognitive Rehabilitation
    • Cognitive rehabilitation is used to provide different types of interventions that are designed to restore normal cognitive (related to the mental processes of perception, memory, judgment and reasoning) functions, or compensate for cognitive deficits.
  • Vocational Rehabilitation
    • Vocational Rehabilitation is a program that helps people with physical, or mental disabilities and assist them with gaining employment, or obtaining another type of occupation.

 

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