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Occupational Therapy Services
Loyola’s skilled occupational therapists provide evaluation and therapy services focused on the tasks and movements associated with daily living for infants, children and adults.
Pediatric Rehabilitative Services
For children who have lost muscular strength, coordination or function due to an illness or injury, Loyola’s offers pediatric rehabilitative services.
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Loyola’s physical medicine and rehabilitation specialists evaluate and manage children and adult patients with physical and cognitive impairment or disability.
Physical Therapy Services
The physical therapists at Loyola provide evaluation, rehabilitation and treatment for different conditions for hospitalized and ambulatory patients of all ages.
Rehabilitation Services
Loyola provides rehabilitation services for both inpatient and outpatient adults and children. The services include occupational therapy, physical therapy and other specialized services.
Speech and Language Therapy
Loyola’s speech and language therapy team provides evaluation and therapy services for communication, cognitive and swallowing impairments in patients of all ages.
Specialized Area to Treat General Rehabilitation Patients
Loyola Medicine’s acute rehabilitation unit is a specialized area offering high-intensity inpatient rehabilitation care. The unit has 20 private rooms at Gottlieb Memorial Hospital. Each room has a wheelchair-accessible bathroom and is designed especially for rehabilitation patients.
Integrated Acute Rehabilitation Team for Patient Treatment and Support
Your acute rehabilitation team is led by a physical medicine and rehabilitation specialist and may also include:
What to Expect at the Acute Rehabilitation Unit
Our acute rehabilitation team will assist, encourage and support you and your family, in addition to help plan any care you may need after discharge.
Specialities
Orthopedic physical therapy focuses on improving the function of your entire musculoskeletal system, which includes your bones, muscles, ligaments, tendons, joints, and connective tissue.
Accreditations
The American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) is a U.S-based professional organization that represents over 100,000 physical therapists, physical therapist assistants, and students of physical therapy.
Levels of care
Outpatient rehab physical therapy is designed for patients who are in need of physical therapy due to an injury or serious medical condition but are independent enough to receive these services while living at home.
Clinical services
Manual physical therapy is a specialized form of physical therapy delivered with the hands as opposed to a device or machine. It is primarily used to treat musculoskeletal pain and disability.
Advanced Techniques to Manage Physical and Cognitive Impairment
Loyola Medicine’s physical medicine and rehabilitation specialists, commonly referred to as physiatrists, diagnose, evaluate and manage children and adult patients with physical and cognitive impairment or disability.
What Conditions are Treated with Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation?
Loyola’s physiatrists have expertise in the diagnosis and non-surgical management of a multitude of disorders, injuries and conditions, including:
