Areas managed by rehabilitation clinicians include mobilities, self care, communication, swallowing and rehabilitation for vocation, education, recreation and psychological adjustment to disability. Rehabilitation professionals include physical therapists, occupational therapists, speech pathologists, psychologists, care managers, prosthetists, and orthotists or creational therapists, vocational specialists and teachers. Some patients with limited impairments, such as musculoskeletal issues may require only a subset of these services. The intensity of rehabilitation services provide varieties according to the patient's severity of illness. Hospitalized patients generally receive treatment one or two times per day, five to seven times per week, with patients in the intensive care unit receiving shorter sessions than those on the rehabilitation services or other wards.
Treatments provided in subacute settings to selected patients generally are five times per week.
For other subacute patients, outpatients and home therapy, it is more common to treat less frequently. The duration of ongoing therapy varies according to each patient's condition. Regardless of the setting, therapy is not considered justified after functional plateaus have been reached. Physical Medicine Rehabilitation Clinics of North America.