Rehabilitation services are necessary when a person with a disability is in need of assistance beyond the person's personal capacities and resources to achieve his/her maximum potential.
What is physical medicine and rehabilitation?
What services are available on the Inpatient Rehabilitation Unit?
What types of patients qualify for admission to the Inpatient Rehabilitation Unit?
What is Acute Care Therapy?
What types of patients receive receive therapy in the hospital?
What is the Center for Joint Success?
Do you have services for children?
What rehab services are available for someone who has had a stroke?
My doctor says I have vertigo. Can a therapist help me to not feel so dizzy?
Since my stroke I have difficulty swallowing food and I have difficulty remembering things. Can a therapist help me with this?
I fall a lot at home. Is there help for me?
Where is Sanford’s Outpatient Rehabilitation Services located at?
Do you have a Driving Evaluation Program?
What is physical medicine (physiatry) and rehabilitation?
Physical medicine (physiatry) and rehabilitation is a branch of medicine that is concerned with:
- the treatment of patients with a disability, disease, or injury to achieve and maintain function
- the diagnosis of injuries or physical conditions
- treatment by external means, including heat, massage, or exercise, rather than by medication or surgery
What services are available on the Inpatient Rehabilitation Unit?
- Consists of a 29 bed unit
- More intensive therapy from Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy, Speech Therapy, and Recreational Therapy.
- 24 Hour/ 7 days per week Nursing services
- Rehabilitation services will assist patients with mobility (walking and transfers), Activities of Daily Living, and speech and cognitive activities.
The program is accredited by the Rehabilitation Accreditation Commission (CARF)
What types of patients qualify for admission to the Inpatient Rehabilitation Unit?
- Fractures
- Spinal Cord injuries
- Head injuries
- Strokes
- Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson’s, etc.
- Amputee’s
- Pulmonary and Cardiac Patients
- Joint Replacements
What is Acute Care Therapy?
- Acutely ill hospital patients.
- Wide variety of patients, ranging from the routine to critically involved, from the very young to the very old.
- Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy, Speech Therapy.
- Therapy services will assist patients with mobility, transfers, walking, strengthening, balance, activities of daily living, problem solving, swallowing, speech, memory and understanding.
What types of patients receive therapy in the hospital?
- Joint Replacements
- Fractures
- Strokes
- Head injuries
- Spinal Cord injuries
- General Surgical
- Pulmonary and cardiac patients
- Back and neck pain
- Multi-trauma
- Wounds
What is the Center for Joint Success?
- Patients undergoing total knee and hip surgeries.
- Education session prior to surgery.
- Team of nursing, physical therapists, occupational therapists, case manager, and pharmacists provides comprehensive care to assist the patient in returning home in a timely fashion.
- Therapy services will assist patients with mobility, transfers, walking, strengthening, and activities of daily living.
Do you have services for children?
- Yes, we have a team of physical, occupational and speech therapists dedicated to working with kids.
- Services include developmental activities, mobility, walking, balance, sensory activities, feeding, swallowing, and language.
- Kids are seen here at the hospital, as an outpatient, or in their homes.
What rehab services are available for someone who has had a stroke?
Our team of physical, occupational and speech therapists work together with the patient to promote independence with activities such as walking, standing, dressing, toileting, feeding and swallowing.
My doctor says I have vertigo. Can a therapist help me to not feel so dizzy?
Vertigo is the feeling of intense dizziness. Sometimes people with vertigo feel like the room is spinning. Our team of physical and occupational therapists can provide vestibular rehabilitation to enable patients to not feel so dizzy.
Since my stroke I have difficulty swallowing food and I have difficulty remembering things. Can a therapist help me with this?
Speech therapists specialize in working with patients who have difficulty with swallowing and speaking and can provide rehabilitation to patients with difficulties with these tasks after sustaining a stroke. Speech therapists can also work with patients to improve their memory after a stroke.
I fall a lot at home. Is there help for me?
Falls can be frightening and can cause injuries. Our team of therapists can evaluate the patient’s strength, joint range of motion, balance and equilibrium to determine what may be causing the patient to fall. Our therapists work with the patient to promote safety with walking and standing to decrease the patient’s risk for falls.
Where is Sanford's Outpatient Rehabilitation Services located at?
- NORTH Center - 1210 West 18th Street, Sioux Falls, SD 57117 (Sanford Outpatient Rehabilitation and Sports Medicine Services are located on the lower level of the NORTH Center and is easily accessible by parking in the 17th Street and Covell Avenue parking lot.)
- 49th and Oxbow, adjacent to the Sanford Wellness Center.
For more information, please email or call 605-333-4569.
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