Rehab Select Blog

Occupational therapy is designed to improve patients' lives by helping them regain the ability to perform important daily tasks after an illness, surgery, or accident. People of any age may need occupational therapy, but seniors make up the majority of patients – and they may also see the greatest results.

Dementia of any origin can be a devastating diagnosis for families to receive. Although some forms of dementia are not typically preventable, there are other types – such as vascular dementia, which is directly related to cardiovascular health – that may be avoided.

Car accident injuries can be life-altering. As a person starts to rebuild their normal life after a car accident, injuries can require ongoing medical care and adjustments in day-to-day life. For many people struggling with car accident injuries, rehabilitation is an important part of the recovery process. Going to short term rehab helps improve recovery outcomes after car accident injuries so that individuals can get back on their feet more quickly.

If you are recovering from an injury or surgery, you may need to undergo physical therapy in order to ensure a proper and quick recovery. This physical rehabilitation can be performed via inpatient rehab or outpatient rehab.

In some cases inpatient rehab, which requires you to stay within a facility in order to undergo physical therapy treatment, will be necessary to properly treat patients recovering from more serious injuries. However, some patients may have the option of undergoing physical therapy outside of such a facility – outpatient rehab.

You've probably heard that hip replacement surgery is one of the best decisions many adults with chronic hip pain have ever made. Even as they were experiencing recovery, they noticed a reduction or absence of pain, and that alone made them feel like a new person!

2010 marked the passing of the Affordable Care Act, which was intended to overhaul the existing U.S. healthcare system. Its central goal was to provide higher quality and more efficient healthcare at decreased costs, made available to expanded numbers of people.

As an extension of the act, the Bundled Payments for Care Improvement (BPCI) initiative was rolled out in 2011. The BPCI initiative speaks directly to the mission of the Affordable Care Act, centrally in its incentive-driven method of improving quality of care and implementing an efficient process of distributing payment to healthcare facilities.

A strong memory depends on the health and vitality of the brain. There are a number of ways to exercise the brain that will improve both memory and mental performance, and these strategies can serve to help an aging brain keep its edge longer or even aid in slowing the progression of conditions such as dementia and Alzheimer's.

Joint replacement surgery offers patients a number of life-changing benefits. However, as they recover, these patients often need their family members and friends to assist them in accomplishing their daily tasks, providing transportation to and from doctors' appointments, and most of all, giving much needed encouragement throughout the healing process.

If you have recently had joint replacement therapy, or such a surgery is in your near future, you may be wondering if you're still going to be able to enjoy time with your family and friends as you recover. After all, no matter how much we look forward to all that comes with having kids and grandkids over to visit, it can still be tiring and challenging – even under the best of circumstances.

Patients who suffer from a severe illness or undergo surgery often require a breathing tube, passed through the mouth, throat, and vocal cords, down into the windpipe. During the procedure the tube may bruise or otherwise damage your vocal cords, leading to temporary or permanent injuries. If you receive emergency intubation, you are at a particularly high risk for damage.