About Outpatient Rehabilitation
The Goal
The goal of Outpatient Rehabilitation Services is to provide care to individuals with disabling conditions who do not require hospitalization to achieve specific therapeutic goals. This allows such persons to minimize the effects of disability and to live in the community at their highest level of physical, social and emotional well-being.
Common Patient Diagnoses
Conditions usually requiring multiple services treated by a team approach:
- Brain injuries
- Spinal cord injuries
- Strokes
- Amputation
- General neuromuscular impairment
- Arthritis
- Cancer with physical impairment
- Parkinson's Disease
- Guillain-Barre'
- Chronic pain
- Muscular Dystrophy
- Cerebral Palsy
- Sports injuries
- Burn
- Other musculoskeletal pain/dysfunction
- Speech and language disorders
- General orthopedic conditions
Conditions usually requiring a single service:
- Hand injuries
- Musculoskeletal disorders
- Wounds
- Lymphedema
- Stuttering & voice disorders
- Developmental delay
- Dysphagia - swallowing disorders
- Sports injuries
Services Provided
- Physician Services
- Physical Therapy
- Occupational Therapy
- Speech & Language Therapy
- Clinical and Neuro-Psychology
- Rehabilitation Nursing
- Social services
- Outpatient therapy and physician follow-up care
- Patient & family counseling
- Patient & family education
- Cognitive rehabilitation
- Home based evaluation
- Home and community-based services
- Hand therapy / Splinting
- Amputee Clinic
- Wound Care
- Lymphedema Treatment
- Swallowing retraining
- Marital & sexual counseling
- Drug & alcohol abuse treatment
- Adaptive driving evaluation
- Home care referrals
- Community resource referrals
- Work/school re-entry (including on site evaluation and training)
Other Services Provided Through University Health Care
- Medical/surgical specialty services
- Social Work & Behavioral Health
- Hearing evaluation & rehabilitation
- Prosthetics & Orthotics
- Augmentative communication
- Balance rehabilitation
- Nutrition services & counseling
- Vocational counseling & evaluation
- IV Home Care
Admission Criteria
- Physician referral
- Medically stable
- Do not require hospitalization
- Financial resource identified
- Independent or provide own assistant
- Ability to make progress
For more information call 801-58-REHAB (587-3422)
