Your Inpatient Rehab Team
Your Inpatient Rehab Team
The Team Approach
The rehabilitation of patients with complex impairments is a process based on the "team approach." This interdisciplinary team for each patient is determined by the patient's assessment, medical needs, predicted outcomes, and rehabilitation needs.
Members of the Team
Members of the team include the patient, the patient's family and/or caregivers, physician, and health professionals. The health professionals are from the fields of physical medicine and rehabilitation (rehab medicine), physical therapy, occupational therapy, rehabilitation nursing, speech/language pathology, social work, pharmacy, nutrition, psychology and recreational therapy.
Individualized
The team is directed by the physiatrist (a physical medicine and rehabilitation physician), who also serves as the patient's treatment program leader. The dynamic process of ongoing evaluation, goal setting, therapy, and re-evaluation allows for the changes in the individualized treatment program as the patient progresses. Team members participate in each step of the process using the particular skills of his/her discipline.
