Three individuals, facing three huge questions. Studies show that rehabilitation leads to shorter hospitalization, lower mortality rates, and fewer medical complications for patients. Rehabilitation has been proven to improve the lives and productivity of those with disabilities resulting from illness and injury. Inpatient facilities offer services to those who require an extended stay at the hospital, during which the patient will undergo many hours of daily rehabilitative exercises. Stroke patients, amputees, spinal cord injury victims, and brain injury patients are examples of people who may need inpatient services to regain an active and independent lifestyle.
Most inpatients eventually transition to outpatient rehabilitation centers.
Outpatient rehabilitation is for patients who have sustained an injury or have a minor disability that would typically require short sessions of rehabilitation. Outpatient rehabilitation uses various types of physical therapy to help patients recover from sports related injuries, orthopedic surgeries, arthritis symptoms, and many other ailments. These services are offered to those who are able to live at home and come to the facilities for therapy sessions. Most people taking part in inpatient rehabilitation will become outpatient participants. HealthSouth rehabilitation centers offer physical therapy, occupational therapy, aquatic therapy, hand therapy, and pediatric therapy, just to name a few.