Rehabilitation Therapy

 

Although it is true that rehabilitation therapy is quite well known among the population, it is also true that there are certain confusions and uncertainties in this regard, which are worth clarifying, in order that you know when this type of therapy is required that in Bridgeview Health Care Center we put at your disposal.

Located in Bridgeview, Illinois, this skilled nursing facility offers an array of health care options, including short-term rehabilitation program for patients who need to quickly recover after hospitalization, as well as long-term care for those who need the additional support.



WHAT IS REHABILITATION THERAPY?

Rehabilitation therapy is a type of medical service that is grouped in the so-called third level of care for a wide variety of diseases. To better understand the context of this definition, it should be mentioned that the first level corresponds to the prevention of a disease, the second level refers to both diagnosis and treatments, while the third and last level corresponds to rehabilitation.

WHAT ROLE DO SPECIALISTS PLAY IN REHABILITATING THERAPIES?

Now, the objective of any rehabilitative therapy is to make people who have suffered an injury, trauma, or disease, to regain their capacities to the maximum, likewise, to return to their daily activities and overcome the condition of disability. This can only be done by physical rehabilitation specialists who usually collaborate with other doctors from different specialties to analyze each clinical case and determine which treatment is the most indicated, and thus achieve the recovery of patients who have been treated for second level treatments.

Among the tasks that these specialists can provide, we can mention pain relief, inflammation, postural correction, recovery of arches of motion, recovery of muscle strength, among other care aimed at solving any injury or illness that requires treatment.

At Bridgeview Health Care Center, along with our medical director and physicians, our team of healthcare experts and professionals will develop an individualized plan of treatment to get you back to the highest functional level possible. The care program at Bridgeview Health Care Center is amazing, both because it has been specially designed to help patients transitioning from hospital to home and because it is implemented by truly exceptional caregivers.

Offering physical, occupational and speech therapy with experience in treating a variety of neurological, orthopedic, and medicalconditions, Bridgeview believes in combining cutting edge technology with proven therapeutic programs to improve outcomes, decrease length of stay, and to get each of our guests to their highest practicable level of function and discharged to home whenever possible.

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