Memorial Hospital's Rehabilitation Services staff offers some of the region's
most comprehensive rehabilitation services. Our dynamic rehabilitation
team includes professionals from physical therapy, occupational therapy,
speech therapy and audiology. The team provides services across the continuum
of care spanning from inpatient treatment, acute rehab, and skilled care,
to home care and outpatient treatment. Some therapy services can be provided
at the job-site. The therapy staff pursues continuing education and training
to ensure they stay up-to-date on the latest and most effective forms
of treatment available.
What Types of Services Do We Provide?
Physical Therapyprovides treatment to improve mobility, balance, and strength. Therapists
also provide pain management techniques. Some diagnoses treated include:
Audiologyprovides hearing aid fittings and various hearing tests. Testing is available
for infants through elderly population. Audiology treats patients with
decreased hearing due to aging, conductive hearing loss, ringing in the
ears and vertigo. Audiology additionally provides:
Hearing Aids in Various Styles and Ranges in Technology (including those
with Smartphone technology)
Fitting of Assistive Listening Devices
Custom Earpieces for Hearing and Water Protection
Provider for CapTel® Services
What Additional Therapy Services Are Provided?
Sportsmetrics: Sportsmetrics is a research and evidence-based training program designed
to safely and effectively return athletes to sports or activity following
ACL injury or reconstruction, as well as other knee and lower extremity injuries.
Lymphedema Management: Lymphedema is a swelling due to trauma, surgery, or inherited deficiency
in the lymphatic system. We have lymphedema therapists in both occupational
and physical therapy that can help manage these symptoms through manual
lymph drainage techniques, bandaging, and exercises.
Vestibular Rehabilitation: This service utilizes Frenzel video goggles and hands-on assessment to
treat people with dizziness, spinning, light headedness, and balance loss.
Pelvic Health: Pelvic health services include treatment for stress and urge incontinence,
pelvic pain, painful intercourse, pregnancy, postpartum care, and back
pain related to pregnancy.
Dry Needling: Dry needling is performed by a physical therapist using an acupuncture-type
needle for the treatment of pain, neuromuscular dysfunctions, and movement
impairments.
Cranial Sacral Therapy (CST): This service uses light touches to the bones of the head, spinal column,
and sacrum to provide relief from migraine headaches, neck pain, back
pain, and more, as well as to decrease stress from chronic injuries.
Blood Flow Restriction (BFR) Therapy: The service utilizes a specialized tourniquet system while exercising,
which allows significantly lighter weight to be used while still creating
a hypertrophy (growth) and strength response. It can be used for a variety
of conditions when criteria are met.
Did You Know?
Direct Access: Physical therapy and occupational therapy services can now be received
without a provider's order for up to 42 consecutive days (this excludes
government insurances such as Medicare and Medicaid).
Industrial Rehabilitation: Memorial Hospital's Rehabilitation Services partners with some local employers
to provide on-site industrial rehabilitation services for physical and
occupational therapy and includes on-site treatment of workplace injuries,
prevention strategies, and job-site analysis.
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