Stroke Rehabilitation (Inpatient)
Comprehensive stroke rehab services are provided for patients who have had a stroke. Other common names for stroke include ruptured aneurysm, brain tumor, encephalitis, cerebral hemorrhage and cerebral infarction. Such patients have cognitive and physical problems requiring relearning of skills that were previously automatic.
Treatment Goals For Patient
- Maximize independence in self-care
- Achieve safe mobility with or without adaptive equipment
- Perform activities of daily living (dressing, eating, bathing, etc.)
- Maximize ability to communicate
- Improve memory and judgment
- Improve balance and coordination
- Adjust to psychosocial changes
- Improve swallowing ability
Stroke Rehab Program Services
- Cognition evaluation and retraining
- Ambulation evaluation and training
- Wheelchair positioning and mobility training
- Speech and swallowing skills assessment and management
- Bowel and bladder training
- Activities of daily living and self-care training (dressing, eating, bathing, etc.)
- Psychological counseling
- Patient and family education
- Community re-entry activities
- Home evaluations to assess need for adaptive equipment and environmental modifications
- Self-medication training
- Dietary/Nutrition counseling
- Stroke education and support groups – Moving Forward program
Stroke Rehabilitation: Moving Forward Program
Having a stroke is a frightening experience, with often long-term effects. And about one-third of all stroke survivors will have another stroke within five years. What most people fail to realize, however, is that strokes are preventable. By recognizing the signs and symptoms and making simple lifestyle changes, patients can significantly reduce their risk for a second stroke.
In order to help patients and families understand stroke and how to prevent recurrent stroke, SOMC Rehabilitation Services offers Moving Forward stroke rehab as part of the patient’s stay on the unit. This four-part educational series was developed with the American Stroke Association and includes informational material, as well as daily instruction by a team of healthcare professionals.
Stroke Rehab Program Components
- Overview – General facts about stroke
- Home safety and adaptive equipment
- Behavior – Memory, personality, mental, and emotional changes
- How stroke affects communication, cognition and swallowing
- Caregiver – Caring for the caregiver
Stroke Rehab Program Benefits
- Reinforces lifestyle changes and management of risk factors, which may result in a healthier patient
- Potentially reduces the chance that stroke will recur
- Establishes source of education and support for the patient and family
- Helps to smooth the transition home
