Long Term Rehabilitation Case Study

According to the National Spinal Cord Injury Statistical Center at UAB, the distribution of the causes of SCI have changed drastically since 2010. SCI caused by vehicular is at 39 % which allows for the need of rehabilitation facilities once care is done in hospitals (National Spinal Cord Injury Statistical Center at UAB, (2012). Outpatient rehabilitation programs are needed because hospital stays have declined bur 24 days to 11 days and then the inpatient rehabilitation went from 98 to 36 days. Many people begin their rehabilitation from a spinal cord injury in an inpatient long term rehabilitation facility which helps them learn how to use what they can of their strength, mobility, and learn new strategies to help them live independently (Scardino D., Cybulski J. (2016). I have included what the facility would be like and how it would be accessible to wheelchairs, administrative team that will be running the office and dealing with the patients and insurance, what equipment will be available to aid in the rehabilitation of the patients and why, and that it is an EOE place of employment.
Today, improved emergency care for people with spinal cord injuries (SCI), antibiotics to treat infections, and aggressive rehabilitation can minimize damage to the nervous system and restore function to varying degrees (Lam,
Is a full body, low impact exercise. Water has been, and still remains, the best environment to meet full function regardless of the injury. Water improves motion and flexibility. The warmth of the water (94°F) and its massaging effects allow muscles to relax while helping to reduce pain. The natural buoyancy reduces gravitational pull and lessens compressive forces, hence making exercises much easier to perform than on land. Best of all, aquatic therapy can be used even if a patient does not know how to swim. The potential uses of aquatic therapy for SCI is that is helps reeducate muscles to stand and walk and is great to practice sit and