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Types of Rehab in Northwest Arkansas
Inpatient rehabilitation helps people who have experienced the debilitating effects of an acute injury, impairment, or illness such as stroke, brain injury, spinal cord injury, orthopedic injury, cardiovascular or pulmonary issues, neurological conditions, amputation, and trauma. The goal is to help each individual function as independently as possible through specialized treatment programs that typically involve a minimum of three hours of therapy each day for at least five days a week. An inpatient rehabilitation patient’s average length of stay is 10-14 days.
The goal of inpatient rehabilitation is to get you back home quickly and help you achieve the best recovery possible.
Scope of Services
The Hospital offers comprehensive treatment programs on an inpatient basis including, but not limited to:
- Rehabilitation Physician Services
- Rehabilitation Nursing
- Program Management
- Physical Therapy
- Occupational Therapy
- Speech Pathology
- Case Management
- Respiratory Therapy
- Dietetic Services
- Behavior Management
- Pharmacy
- Dialysis
- EKSO NR Robotics Gait Trainer
- Wound Care
Physical Therapy programs focus on improvement of strength, endurance, flexibility, motor control and stability to support the return to normal functional activities. The program includes patient education about the mechanism of injury, recovery process and prevention of re-injury. In the acute program, symptom relief is achieved through medical management and/or passive modalities with progression toward an active and aggressive plan of care. As treatment progresses, patients are weaned from supportive therapies and moved toward greater independence and self-care.
The scope of services for Physical Therapy includes evaluation and treatment including but not limited to:
- Arthritis education
- Balance training
- Compression
- Coordination training
- Patient/Family education
- Functional training
- Gait training
- Home exercise program development
- Ice massage
- Ice packs
- Joint mobilization
- Massage
- Moist hot packs
- Neuromuscular re-education
- Prosthetic training
- Rehabilitation exercise
- Strengthening
- Stretching
- Support groups
- Therapeutic exercise
- Transfer training
- Ultrasound
Occupational Therapy programs focus on improvement of strength, endurance, flexibility, cognitive retraining, motor control and stability to support the return to normal functional activities. The program includes patient education about the mechanism of injury, recovery process and prevention of re-injury. In the acute program symptom relief is achieved through medical management and/or passive modalities with progression toward an active and aggressive plan of care. As treatment progresses, patients are weaned from supportive therapies and moved toward greater independence.
The scope of services for occupational therapy includes evaluation and treatment including but not limited to:
- Activities of daily living
- Arthritis education
- Cognitive retraining
- Compression therapy
- Coordination
- Endurance training
- Eye hand coordination activities
- Family education and training
- Functional evaluation
- Functional training
- Functional Electrical Stimulation
- IADL training
- Moist heat
- Neuromuscular re-education
- Patient/Family education
- Strengthening
- Stretching
- Support groups
- Therapeutic exercises
- Transfer training
- Visual/perceptual re-training
Speech and language therapy programs focus on cognitive, swallowing, social and communication skills. The program includes patient education about the mechanism of injury, recovery process and prevention of re-injury. The scope of services for speech and language therapy includes evaluation and treatment of language disorders including, but not limited to, level of care and treatment procedures.
Level of Care
Comprehensive assessments and diagnostic evaluations are made prior to the implementation of treatment. Services are occasionally for the purpose of evaluation/diagnosis only, and may be consultative in nature, rather than direct patient care. Services may consist of one or more of the following procedures:
- Speech/Language Assessment
- Cognitive-Communicative Status Assessment
- Dysphagia Evaluation and Behavioral Feeding Assessments (including bedside assessment, instrumental assessments and examinations, and feeding assessments)
- Augmentative/Alternative Communication Assessment
Treatment Procedures
- Therapy directed at improving oral-motor control for communication/feeding/swallowing
- Therapy for auditory comprehension/processing
- Therapy for verbal language expression and comprehension
- Therapy for reading and writing disorders
- Training for use of augmentative/alternative communication and other forms of non-vocal communication
- Training in cognitive skills related to language comprehension/production/use (attention, visual and auditory processing, memory, reasoning/problem-solving, executive functions, and pragmatics)
- Therapy for improving/retraining swallowing/ oral motor feeding
- Therapy to improve speech intelligibility or articulation
- Counseling/education concerning communication/swallowing disorders
- Therapy in the use of valves for tracheostomy/ventilator dependent patients
- Training procedures directed at family members or others (on equipment use or in the application of facilitative techniques)
- Patient education and counseling; home program preparation
- Work and school transitioning services
- Clinical documentation and patient care communications
- Family-focused therapies, education and counseling
- Staff education
The hospital also offers additional services onsite by outside sources or under arrangements, including:
- Orthotics and Prosthetics
- Laboratory Services – waived testing
- Clinical Psychology
The Hospital provides for the following under arrangements:
- Diagnostic Radiology
- Pathology and Clinical laboratory