Inpatient Rehabilitation Programs
Orthopedic injuries and disorders
- Total knee and hip replacements
- Multiple orthopedic replacements
- Multiple orthopedic trauma
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Spinal compression fractures
- Laminectomies
Strokes
- Confusion
- Memory or attention problems
- Numbness or paralysis of the hand, arm, leg, or facial muscles
- Difficulty communicating
- Difficulty swallowing
- Blurred or decreased vision
- Personality changes
- Uncontrollable Mood Swings
- Depression
- Decreased control over bowel & bladder
Pain management
- Interventional and non-interventional options
Spasticity
Doctor's Hospital understands that the degree of spasticity varies from mild
muscle stiffness to severe, painful, and uncontrollable muscle spasms.
Symptoms that we will treat include:
- hyper tonicity - increased muscle tone
- clonus -a series of rapid muscle contractions,exaggerated deep tendon
reflexes, muscle spasms
- scissoring - involuntary crossing of the legs and fixed joints
Spasticity may occur in association with spinal cord injury, multiple sclerosis,
cerebral palsy, or damage to the brain because of lack of oxygen due to a brain
trauma.
Brain injuries
- Visual & Hearing impairment
- Paralysis
- Seizures
- Reasoning ability impairment
- Memory problems
- Loss of language skills
- Dramatic personality change
- Speech Programs
Spinal cord injuries
- Vascular injuries to the spinal cord
- Infectious injuries to the spinal cord
- Paraplegic Paralysis
- Quadriplegic Paralysis
Additional Inpatient Rehabilitation Programs
- Visual & Hearing impairment
- Debilitated Status
- Progress weakness with increased potential for falls
- Poor Motor Skills
- Status - Post radiation or chemotherapy
- Malnutrition
- Orthopedic and Muscular disorders
- General Pain Disorders
Outpatient Rehabilitation Programs
Doctor's Hospital offers a broad variety of outpatient programs. Our
interdisciplinary team will work with the referring physicians to help with your
Vocational Rehabilitation and other outpatient needs.
Doctor's Hospital will provide vocational rehabilitation programs for our
patients. A patient's case worker will provide assistance to you when
returning to work or school. Our case worker may make home or workplace
visitations to help with recommendations for a patient to return to successful
environment outpatient rehabilitation a trouble-free success.
Community Health
If your school, organization or club is interested in learning more about a health or medical topic, the Doctor's Hospital Speakers Bureau may be for you. Our health professionals are available upon request to share information and ideas about a number of relevant and timely issues.
Some sample speaker topics include but are not limited to:
- Physical Rehabilitation Medicine
- Pain Management
- Outpatient Therapy
- Medicare/Medicade/Private Insurance
Hearing Impaired
Arrangements may be made to have a person who uses sign language help a hearing impaired or deaf patient. In addition, specially designed TTD telephone equipment is available.
Interpreters
The hospital has access to interpreters for a number of foreign languages if a patient requires it.
Pastoral Services
When you are admitted, your admitting form asks your religious preference. If you
indicate a preference, you may be visited by your church's Pastor. Several
members of the area's clergy regularly visit patients.
Patient Education
Patient Education packets are assembled for each patient. Packets are tailored to
your specific healthcare needs. Included in the packet is a listing of area
community resources and telephone numbers.