Dignity Health, St. Joseph's Outpatient Rehabilitation

Common types of rehabilitation include occupational therapy, which helps you navigate daily tasks, physical therapy, which improves strength, movement and flexibility, and speech and language therapy, which helps with difficulties speaking or swallowing.

Other types of rehabilitation help you recover from or live with specific conditions. Some rehabilitation types include:

• Cardiac rehabilitation supports heart health.

• Neurological (cognitive) rehabilitation helps treat brain, spinal cord and nerve conditions.

• Pulmonary rehabilitation helps strengthen your lungs.

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Physical rehabilitation includes a variety of therapies that help improve function and independence. This involves completing a series of exercises that target specific symptoms, abilities or needs.

You may need neurological (cognitive) rehabilitation if you have an injury or illness that impacts your brain, spinal cord or nerves. We often provide this specialized rehabilitation to help people recovering from or living with conditions such as:

• Balance problems (vestibular dysfunction)

• Brain tumors

• Concussion and brain injuries

• Movement disorders, such as Parkinson’s disease

• Other neurological diseases, such as multiple sclerosis

• Spinal cord injuries

• Stroke

At Outpatient Rehabilitation – Chandler Regional Medical Center, we provide:

• Injury prevention services

• Neurological (cognitive) rehabilitation

• Occupational therapy

• Orthopedic therapy after joint replacement surgery or injuries, including creating customized splints

• Physical therapy

• Speech and language therapy

Rehabilitation specialists treat a wide range of conditions at Chandler Regional Medical Center. We care for diseases, disorders and injuries such as:

• Balance problems (vestibular dysfunction)

• Brain tumors

• Cancer

• Chronic illness

• Concussion and brain injuries

• Difficulty swallowing (dysphagia)

• Hand problems and injuries

• Infection-related conditions

• Muscle, bone and joint injuries

• Neurological diseases, such as movement disorders and stroke

• Pain syndromes, such as complex regional pain syndrome

• Pelvic floor dysfunction, including stress incontinence

• Recovery after leg, foot or other amputation surgery

• Spinal cord injuries and recovery from back surgery

• Sports-related injuries

• Traumatic injuries

• Workplace injuries

We offer many advanced therapies to help support your recovery. Your rehabilitation therapist may recommend techniques or technologies including:

• Balance Master system based on biofeedback

• Gait (walking) training system

• Cold compression therapy

• Instrument-assisted soft tissue mobilization

• Interactive touchscreen technology for assessment and exercises

• Specialized Parkinson’s disease exercise program

• Therapeutic dry needling

Depending on your illness or injury, rehabilitation may range from a few weeks to several years. For some patients, therapy will be a life-long commitment.

There are a variety of medical conditions that may benefit from an evaluation or treatment by a physical, occupational or speech therapist.

We believe that rehabilitation is most successful when patients and their family members work together with a team of therapists and healthcare professionals including:

Occupational, physical, recreation and speech therapists

Rehabilitation physicians/physiatrists

Neuropsychologists

Nutritionists

Social workers/Case managers

Rehab nurses