Therapy & Rehabilitation Services
After a health setback, you may struggle with the simplest things — from saying hello to waving goodbye. Providence therapy and rehabilitation services help you restore or improve abilities as basic as moving, thinking or speaking. A sports or traumatic injury, stroke, surgery or chronic disease can harm these and other everyday functions.
Our rehabilitation specialists diagnose and address challenges related to a wide variety of conditions, including injured muscles, bones and joints, speech and hearing problems, and life-limiting disabilities such as paralysis or challenges related to brain injury.
Your doctor may advise inpatient or outpatient physical, occupational (daily life activities) or speech therapy.
At Providence Holy Family Hospital, we collaborate with St. Luke’s Rehabilitation Institute to provide rehabilitative services and therapies to treat the effects of conditions, including:
- Arthritis
- Balance disorders
- Cancer
- Cardiac disease
- Hand injuries
- Hip and knee repair/replacement
- Limb loss
- Musculoskeletal disorders
- Movement disorders such as Parkinson’s disease
- Nerve disorders and diseases such as Multiple Sclerosis (MS)
- Neuromuscular disease such as Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)
- Pulmonary disease
- Speech, language and swallowing disorders
- Spinal cord injury
- Stroke
- Head trauma and other brain diseases
- Voice problems
- Wound care
Rehabilitation services include physical, occupational and speech therapy. We encourage you to take an active role in your care so you can function independently as soon as possible.
- Assessment and follow-up evaluation
- Balance training and re-education
- Dressing treatments and medication wraps
- Education about your condition and care plan
- Electrical therapy
- Exercise instruction
- Functional electrical stimulation (FES)
- Heat and cold therapy
- Massage, muscle and joint manipulation
- Therapeutic exercise
- Traction for neck and back conditions
Muscle, bone or nerve disorders and life-changing events such as amputated limbs and severe wounds can make ordinary activities frustrating and difficult. We’ll help you remaster daily tasks, from getting dressed to planning and preparing meals. Our services include:
- Assessment and follow-up evaluation
- Cognitive activities (thinking, memory or reasoning)
- Education about condition and care plan
- Functional activities
- Learning how to conserve energy
- Management of edema (swelling from inflammation or injury)
- Motor or movement control
- Range-of-motion therapy
- Self-care training
- Splinting to stabilize bones or limbs
- Strengthening therapy
- Visual perceptual tasks
Our speech-language therapists work with people with challenges like:
- Speaking and articulation disorders
- Stuttering and fluency problems
- Speech problems
- Swallowing disorders
- Voice sound and quality issues
Your physiatrist — a doctor who specializes in physical medicine and rehabilitation — will manage your rehabilitation care. This includes coordinating care with other doctors, therapists and practitioners.
Your team may include:
- Assistive technology professionals
- Chaplains
- Counselors
- Dietitians
- Medical social workers
- Nurses
- Occupational therapists
- Physical therapist
- Prosthetics and orthotic specialists
- Recreational therapists
- Radiologists
- Speech pathologists
Hundreds of therapy professionals with St. Luke’s Rehabilitation Institute share their expertise with our team members and patients. St. Luke’s, an affiliate of Providence, is the region’s largest free-standing — and only Level I —trauma rehabilitation hospital with numerous outpatient locations throughout Spokane.
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