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Musculoskeletal rehabilitation helps you regain strength, flexibility, and motion after a disease, injury, or illness.
Neurological rehabilitation helps a person recover from a disease or injury that affects the nervous system including stroke, traumatic brain injury or cancer.
Pulmonary rehabilitation is for people with moderate to severe lung diseases.
Learn more about the treatment and benefits of musculoskeletal rehabilitation.
Musculoskeletal (MUH-skew-low-SKEL-ih-tuhl) rehabilitation is a set of treatments that can help you recover strength and the ability to move your muscles and joints. This kind of treatment may be used after an accident, injury, or disease that makes you less able to move your muscles or joints. Your musculoskeletal system is the muscles and bones in your body. These are the parts of your body that help you move, lift, and work with tools. Many injuries and diseases can damage your bones and muscles or make it harder to use them. Some of these include:
There are many benefits of musculoskeletal rehabilitation:
If you have a condition that affects your musculoskeletal system, your healthcare provider may recommend several different kinds of treatment, including rehabilitation.
Learn more about the treatment and benefits of neurological rehabilitation.
Neurological rehabilitation (rehab) is treatment to help a person recover from a disease or injury that affects the nervous system. You may need rehab include if you’ve had a stroke, traumatic brain injury, degenerative nerve disease, cancer, or an infection. Depending on the damage to the nerves and your treatment plan, the rehab team may include a neurologist, orthopedist, psychologist, physical therapist, speech therapist, or occupational therapist.
Nerves are your body’s electrical system. They are found everywhere in your body and power in everything your body does. Damage to your nerves can cause pain and affect the ability to function—from walking to swallowing to learning and speaking. Common diseases and injuries that cause nerve damage include:
Neurological rehab has many benefits. It can help you regain your independence and do the following:
Your rehab plan will depend on your injury or condition. For example, if you have trouble speaking or swallowing, a speech therapist can help you learn how to do these things again. An occupational therapist might help you learn how to cook meals for yourself or shower safely. And a physical therapist might help you stand and walk again. Some common things you might learn in neurological rehabilitation include:
Learn more about the treatment and benefits of pulmonary rehabilitation.
Pulmonary rehab (short for pulmonary rehabilitation or PR) is a program for people with moderate or severe lung disease. It’s run by a team of doctors, nurses, respiratory therapists, exercise physiologists, and registered dietitian nutritionists. A pulmonary rehab program includes:
Pulmonary rehab isn’t “one size fits all.” The rehab team will work with you to create a plan that is based on your condition, needs, and goals. The goal is to create a program that is designed to meet your exact needs.
Doctors often prescribe pulmonary rehab for people with the following conditions:
Studies show that pulmonary rehab programs make a big difference for people at all stages of lung disease. Specifically, the program can:
Each pulmonary rehab program is different, but they all share these basic features:
Initial assessment. The rehab staff examines your condition, needs, and lifestyle. They’ll try to understand what limits you and what concerns you about your daily life. You may have tests like the six-minute walk test to check your physical abilities.
What happens in the classes?
Living better with lung disease requires certain knowledge and skills. Pulmonary rehab classes include topics like:
What happens in the exercise part?
In pulmonary rehab, your exercise program is uniquely designed for you. It lets you start at your own pace, and helps you gradually increase activity as you are able.
As you exercise at pulmonary rehab, the staff will watch to make sure you are safe and keep track of your progress. They’ll keep track of your blood pressure, blood oxygen, weight, and exercise ability. If you also have a heart problem, you might wear sticky patches (electrodes) on your chest that are connected to a monitor to check your heart rate and rhythm. The exercise program has five parts:
Of course, not all of your exercise needs to happen at the pulmonary rehab facility. Pulmonary rehab staff will teach you to take what you’ve learned back to your own home, so that you can keep getting stronger in between pulmonary rehab sessions.