Depression, anger, marital problems, and other conditions of psychological distress associated with chronic pain also are addressed. The Pediatric Rehabilitation program offers services for children and adolescents with a variety of disabling conditions, such as cerebral palsy, spinal cord injury, brain injury, myelodysplasia, neuromuscular diseases, hemophilia, and amputation. Expertise is available in all types of rehabilitative care, including specialized nursing, physical and occupational therapy, orthotics and prosthetics, rehabilitation engineering, speech and language pathology, and rehabilitation psychology and social work. This program provides comprehensive management of children and adolescents who use a ventilator or bilevel positive pressure device to assist breathing. Staff includes a pediatric physiatrist, pediatric pulmonologist, nurse, respiratory care practitioners, PT, OT, SLP, psychologist, and rehab engineer.
Services provided include comprehensive inpatient management, outpatient clinics, and therapies.
This program provides evaluation of patients' functional deficits, determination of rehabilitation goals such as ambulation and self care, and prescriptions for rehabilitation therapies, orthotic and prosthetic devices, and coordinated disability management. This program manages individuals with a history of polio who are experiencing late effects of the disease. The goal of the treatment program is to restore as much function as possible and to decrease pain and disability through a combination of rehabilitative services. A research component of the program documents new needs for services and the causes of progressive weakness and fatigue. School Clinics Physical medicine and rehabilitation school clinics are held at various schools in southeastern Michigan which contract for services with the University of Michigan Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation.