Physical Rehabilitation Services
For patients‘ convenience, Physical Rehabilitation Services also are offered through the Sweet Home Family Medicine Clinic, (541) 451-6272.
Program Overview
The Physical Rehabilitation Department at Lebanon Community Hospital works one-on-one with both inpatients and outpatients who suffer pain or limited functional mobility due to injury or disease. Because the program offers a wide variety of physical rehabilitation services, it can provide a personal, individual care plan for each patient. The goal is to promote optimal physical performance for every person.
Because recovery does not end when a patient completes physical rehabilitation sessions, the program places great emphasis on education. Therapists work with patients and their families to teach them how to continue their healing process at home and how to prevent re-injury.
Among the services offered are:
- Physical therapy
- Occupational therapy
- Hand therapy
- Stroke rehabilitation
- Home health
- Orthotics
- Sports medicine
- Manual therapy
- Speech therapy
People who could benefit from Physical Rehabilitation Services include those with:
- Arthritis
- Muscle strains
- On-the-job injuries
- Sports injuries
- Stroke
- Back pain
- Unsteady gait
Special Programs
Lymphedema Treatment
This treatment program helps people with lymphedema, a condition in which an accumulation of lymphatic fluid causes swelling, and sometimes drainage, most often in the hands, feet, arms or legs. The condition may affect those whose earlier breast, ovarian, prostate or abdominal cancers have compromised their lymphatic systems. The condition is usually chronic and requires ongoing care.
The program teaches manual lymphatic drainage (MLD) (a technique for massaging the affected area and diverting lymph fluid accumulated there), skin care, methods to prevent exacerbating the symptoms, home exercises, compression/bandaging techniques, signs and symptoms of infection and more.
Urinary Incontinence/Pelvic Floor Therapy Program
This non-surgical and non-pharmacological program helps people who suffer from stress incontinence (loss of urine that occurs when the bladder senses pressure, such as from coughing or lifting) and urge incontinence (an immediate and strong need to urinate. The program uses pelvic floor therapy to strengthen muscles and alter everyday habits. Therapy to help tone pelvic floor muscles includes biofeedback, manometry (a means of measuring muscle or external sphincter pressure), and/or electrical stimulation.
Each patient in the program comes once a week for four weeks for treatment that may take one hour to 90 minutes. If enough progress has been made during that time, the patient will continue for four more weeks. Even after treatment, patients are encouraged to do prescribed at-home exercises. The program accepts patients through referrals from primary care physicians.
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