Rehabilitation medical care in East Texas
The inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation programs at the UT Health East Texas Rehabilitation Center are designed to help you regain mobility and function after a serious illness, injury, or surgery. Our physical therapists provide acute care services to help you reach your goal of independence and optimal health. With our state-of-the-art 49-bed rehab center, our team offers the most advanced therapy techniques and hospitalization services to help you recover in a supportive environment. We provide inpatient services like hemodialysis treatment, occupational therapy, and physical therapy, as well as outpatient rehab services including aquatics therapy, cardiopulmonary rehabilitation, and a specialized Parkinson’s disease program. No matter your needs, our rehabilitation programs offer a complete continuum of care to help you recover and get back to doing what you love.
Our inpatient rehabilitation treatments and services
Our inpatient rehabilitation program offers the following hospitalization services and treatments:
- Access to trauma care: With our Level 1 Trauma 1 center just around the corner, our patients are never far from fast, effective trauma care delivered by licensed trauma physicians.
- Diagnostic and laboratory services: Our radiology and laboratory department are nearby so whether you need X-rays or blood testing, our imaging and lab specialists are nearby and ready to help.
- Hemodialysis services: Our nephrologists and rehabilitation specialists offer dialysis treatment for patients with kidney failure. Hemodialysis sessions typically last several hours and are scheduled multiple times a week, though exact scheduling will depend on your individual health needs and treatment plan.
- Limb loss rehabilitation: Our limb loss rehabilitation program focuses on helping patients regain function, mobility, and independence after an amputation. This program includes personalized therapy plans, prosthetic training, pain management, and emotional support to address both physical and psychological aspects of limb loss.
- Occupational therapy: Our occupational therapists assist patients in caring for themselves and redeveloping daily living skills. We offer home evaluations, assistive equipment, and post-discharge support.
- Pastoral care: Our licensed chaplain is available to provide spiritual care services and support to patients of all faiths and backgrounds.
- Physical therapy: Our physical therapists work to develop your strength, mobility, and endurance, as well as relieve pain through exercise, home evaluations, medical equipment, and post-discharge care.
- Psychology services: We offer both a psychologist and a neuropsychologist on staff to evaluate our patients’ cognitive and emotional therapy needs.
- Rehabilitation medicine and nursing: Our rehabilitation nurses assist patients with disabilities and chronic illness in attaining maximum functional ability, maintaining optimal health, and adapting to an altered lifestyle. Our nurses are specially trained to provide care and treatment and will contribute to various aspects of your treatment plan.
- Respiratory therapy: Our pulmonologists and respiratory
- Speech therapy: Our speech therapists help patients overcome difficulties with communicating, thinking/thought organization, and swallowing problems.
- Stroke rehabilitation: Our stroke rehabilitation program is designed to help patients recover motor skills, speech, and cognitive functions affected by a stroke. The program includes physical, occupational, and speech therapy, as well as customized exercise regimens and adaptive strategies to enhance daily living activities and overall quality of life.
- Transitional living apartment: Our transitional living apartments are residential areas that offer support and a therapeutic environment to patients recovering from injury, illness, or surgery. These apartments bridge the gap between hospital care and independent living, facilitating your recovery and development of daily living skills under the supervision of our rehabilitation experts.
- VitalStim: VitalStim Therapy is a therapeutic intervention for use in the treatment of dysphagia (swallowing disorders). It is a specialized form of neuromuscular electrical stimulation (NMES), specifically designed to treat dysphagia.
- Wound care services: Our inpatient staff includes a wound care-certified nurse on staff to treat patients with both chronic and acute wounds.
Our inpatient rehabilitation unit is located on the third and fourth floors of the UT Health East Texas Rehabilitation Center. We offer transitional living apartments, centralized workstations, therapy gyms, dining rooms, and state-of-the-art equipment for neurological and orthopedic patients. We also offer a covered parking garage for your convenience. To learn more about our inpatient rehab center, please call us.
Outpatient rehabilitation services
Our day care medical services include the following types of outpatient rehabilitative care:
- Aquatics therapy: Our rehabilitation specialists utilize aquatic therapy for progressive strengthening, pain reduction, chronic pain management, and reduced gravity therapy to help patients restore mobility and function.
- Balance and vestibular program: Our balance and vestibular program offers assessments for patients with dizziness, disequilibrium, vertigo, or associated symptoms. This program is developed to help reduce these symptoms and help patients manage them based on their needs.
- Cardiopulmonary rehabilitation: Our cardiopulmonary rehab program helps patients improve their health after being diagnosed with a heart or lung condition. This program includes exercises, breathing techniques, medication, and other services to help manage cardiopulmonary conditions.
- Dry needling: Dry needling therapy involves the insertion of thin needles into specific trigger points in muscles to relieve pain and restore mobility. This technique is effective in treating musculoskeletal issues such as chronic pain, muscle tightness, and sports injuries.
- Limb loss rehabilitation: Our limb loss rehabilitation program focuses on helping patients regain function, mobility, and independence after an amputation. This program includes personalized therapy plans, prosthetic training, pain management, and emotional support to address both physical and psychological aspects of limb loss.
- Lymphedema management: Our lymphedema specialists help patients manage chronic and progressive conditions through proper compression treatment, appropriate lymphatic massage, and long-term self maintenance education.
- Occupational therapy: Our occupational therapists assist patients in caring for themselves and redeveloping daily living skills. We offer home evaluations, assistive equipment, and post-discharge support.
- Orthotic therapy: We offer a variety of treatments for orthopedic disabilities, hand injuries, occupational injuries, neurological dysfunction, arthritic conditions and cognitive deficits. Our physical therapists also specialize in fabrication and monitoring of casting or splinting for joint deformity prevention and post-surgical progression.
- Parkinson’s program: Our Parkinson’s program consists of promoting functional mobility, minimizing potential secondary impairments and progression of the disease, and safety education. We also offer a community wellness program specifically designed for Parkinson’s patients.
- Physical therapy: Our physical therapists work to restore your strength, mobility, and endurance, as well as relieve pain, through exercise, home evaluations, medical equipment, and post-discharge support.
- Speech therapy: Our speech therapists help patients overcome difficulties with communicating, thinking/thought organization, and swallowing problems.
- Splinting: Our splinting services include the fabrication and application of custom splints to support and immobilize joints and muscles during the healing process.Splints are also used to prevent joint deformities, aid in post-surgical recovery, and support conditions like fractures, sprains, and repetitive strain injuries.
- Total joint replacement therapy: Our therapists offer treatment for individuals after total joint surgeries to improve motion, strength, ambulation and function. Our total joint replacement therapy programs are guided by appropriate physician protocols and paced appropriately for individual needs and healing phases. We offer custom upper extremity and hand splinting, VitalStim, and functional capacity evaluations.Functional capacity evaluations are performed by a licensed physical therapist to document your ability to perform work from a physical, medical, behavioral and ergonomic perspective.
- Work conditioning: Work conditioning is a highly structured, goal oriented program of progressive physical activities designed to enhance the work capacity of an injured worker in order to return to the workforce.
To learn more about our outpatient rehabilitation services, please call us.
