Physical therapy and rehabilitation
Rehabilitation helps you regain strength and learn new ways of completing daily activities after serious injury or illness. Rehabilitation may include physical therapy, occupational therapy or speech-language pathology (speech therapy).
Physical therapy and rehabilitation in Salt Lake City
At St. Mark's Hospital, rehabilitation services are designed to help patients through their recovery process with physical, occupational and speech therapy services.
Our outstanding staff provide inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation services to patients through recognized standards of care, practice, guidelines and licensure. Our rehabilitation facilities include:
Expert advice, available 24/7
Free health-related advice is just a phone call away. Our licensed nurses will help you understand your symptoms, answer health-related questions, and navigate where to seek care.
Free health-related advice is just a phone call away. Our licensed nurses will help you understand your symptoms, answer health-related questions, and navigate where to seek care.
Comprehensive rehabilitation services
To ensure we can provide the type of rehabilitative care that is right for each patient, we offer comprehensive services:
- Physical therapy focuses on improving your function, movement, and mobility that have been impacted due to pain, imbalance, weakness, and/or disability to optimize your quality of life. Treatments are customized to address your specific needs, but may include functional and therapeutic exercises, modalities, and patient education
- Occupational therapy treatment focuses on helping you complete daily tasks more easily that may have been impacted due to functional disabilities, pain and/or injury. Treatment may also include an assessment of your living environment including home, work, and/or school to optimize your quality of life.
- Speech pathology focuses on the treatment of individuals with conditions that may affect speech, language, cognition and/or swallowing abnormalities.
- Recreational therapy includes activities that encourage the restoration of independent activities that are suited to the needs and interests of the patient. Because of this, recreational therapy can also aid in psycho-social growth and enhanced well-being. (Recreational therapy is available for inpatient rehabilitation.)
Common reasons for physical therapy and rehabilitation
Patients may benefit from therapy services for many reasons, such as if they are:
- Experiencing cardiac or respiratory conditions, such as cardiac arrest or respiratory failure
- Experiencing chronic pain or long-term hospital stays, such as those related to cancer and respiratory conditions
- Having compromised nutrition as the result of dysphasia (a language disorder) and/or medical conditions that may require central feeding or hydration intake
- Recovering from cardio-pulmonary surgeries and/or abnormalities that have reduced the patient's strength, stamina and independence
- Recovering from neurological conditions, such as Parkinson’s disease, dementia, a traumatic brain injury, head and neck cancer or myasthenia gravis
- Recovering from orthopedic surgery, such as joint replacement surgery
Inpatient Rehabilitation
At our Acute Rehabilitation Center, our inpatient rehabilitation team is committed to returning individuals with illnesses, diseases and injuries to their highest level of independence. To do this, we create personalized therapy plans designed to optimize the skills and activities used in everyday life.
Through acute inpatient rehabilitation, we address:
- Activities of daily living
- Community reintegration skills
- Continence
- Home modification recommendations for safe discharge
- Language skills
- Mobility
- Pain management
- Visual skills
For more information about our inpatient rehabilitation services, please call the Acute Rehabilitation Center at (801) 293-6800.
Conditions treated with acute rehabilitation
Our inpatient rehabilitation team helps patients who have experienced loss of function due to:
- Amputations
- Brain injuries
- Complicated orthopedic conditions
- Hip fractures
- Multiple traumas
- Neurological diseases
- Spinal cord dysfunction
- Strokes
- Other disabling conditions
Our acute inpatient rehabilitation team
Our multidisciplinary inpatient rehabilitation team includes:
- A rehabilitation physician
- Clinical psychologist and dietitian, if needed
- Internist
- Occupational therapists
- Physical therapists
- Rehabilitation nurses
- Social workers/discharge planners
- Speech-language pathologists
Admission to our acute rehabilitation care unit
To be admitted to the Acute Rehabilitation Center, a patient must:
- Require close supervision by a rehabilitation physician
- Require 24/7 rehabilitation nursing care
- Have the ability to participate in an intensive rehabilitation program, usually consisting of three hours of therapy per day at least five days a week
- Have a reasonable expectation for improvement
- Require an interdisciplinary, coordinated team approach that will include at least two of the following:
- Physical therapy
- Occupational therapy
- Speech-language pathology