subject: Trust In Rehab Centers For Occupational And Physical Therapy [print this page] Whether you or a loved one is recovering from surgery, has suffered injury from a fall or accident, or is recovering or learning to live with a debilitating condition, rehab centers are there to help them adjust. At these centers the patient is expected to participate in recovery routines to ease them back into being independent. These daily routines will normally include physical and occupational therapies, and sometimes even speech therapy. These are all essentials that are expected to be continued in the time spent at the short term rehab facility as well as at home once the patient is ready to go home.
You can often find patients diagnosed with arthritis, stroke, or recovery surgery in occupational and physical therapy sessions. This is because their joints and muscles may have become temporarily weakened from lack of use or improper movement. The goals of the treatment are to prevent loss of use of joints and muscles, to restore previous abilities and potentially improve them, and to help you adapt to new activities. It can also be used as a way to maintain fitness and encourage healthy living. Essentially they target your gross and fine motor skills for overall better physical control and comfort of motion.
As for the speech therapy, which is sometimes included in treatments for patients with brain trauma, it is used to reverse aphasia. Aphasia is a disturbance in the way the brain produces, processes, and understands language. It is one of many theories believed that the brain can re-learn through intense training which spans only a few hours over a few days, rather than many sessions. In the session auditory and visual stimuli are encouraged so that the brain can connect the relationship between visual and audio cues, thereby retriggering the understanding so that the patient properly re-learns the language.
Patients who are treated in a rehab center have a higher rate of success readjusting to daily life than those who do not get the proper attention. It benefits not only the family of the loved one but the individual going through this transition. This kind of care can even be followed up after inpatient status has ended, turning into an outpatient treatment service that also focuses on reestablishing independence while teaching the outpatient howto use assistive technology and other adaptive equipment.
The centers will adapt the program as they see fit providing you or your loved one with the most accurae and effective possible care.
