Inpatient Stroke Rehabilitation
Comprehensive rehabilitation services are provided for patients who have had a stroke. Other common names for stroke include ruptured aneurysm, brain tumor, encephalitis, cerebral hemorrhage and cerebral infarction. Such patients have cognitive and physical problems requiring relearning of skills that were previously automatic.
Treatment Goals For Patient
- Maximize independence in self-care
- Achieve safe mobility with or without adaptive equipment
- Perform activities of daily living (dressing, eating, bathing, etc.)
- Maximize ability to communicate
- Improve memory and judgment
- Improve balance and coordination
- Adjust to psychosocial changes
- Improve swallowing ability
Program Services
- Cognition evaluation and retraining
- Ambulation evaluation and training
- Wheelchair positioning and mobility training
- Speech and swallowing skills assessment and management
- Bowel and bladder training
- Activities of daily living and self-care training (dressing, eating, bathing, etc.)
- Psychological counseling
- Patient and family education
- Community re-entry activities
- Home evaluations to assess need for adaptive equipment and environmental modifications
- Self-medication training
- Dietary/Nutrition counseling
- Stroke education and support groups - Starting Now program
For more information, please contact:
SOMC Rehabilitation Services
1202 18th Street
Portsmouth, OH 45662
Telephone: (740) 356-7438
Or e-mail Brett Lacy
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