Rehabilitation Services
at Wellstar MCG Health Medical Center
Wellstar MCG Health Medical Center offers a range of rehabilitation services, including physical therapy, occupational therapy and speech-language pathology, to improve and restore patients’ quality of life.
Compassionate & Patient-Centered Rehabilitative Care
Rehabilitation is essential to helping people regain the skills they need for daily life that have been lost or impaired due to illness or injury. At Wellstar MCG Health Medical Center, our adult rehabilitation and therapy team offers inpatient acute care that is tailored to each patient and informed by the latest research. We also provide outpatient rehabilitation services at Wellstar MCG Health Physical Therapy.
From physical therapy and occupational therapy to speech-language pathology and swallowing rehabilitation, we provide the compassionate, high-quality care patients need to be able to return to the activities that are most meaningful to them and live as independently as possible.
From physical therapy and occupational therapy to speech-language pathology and swallowing rehabilitation, we provide the compassionate, high-quality care patients need to be able to return to the activities that are most meaningful to them and live as independently as possible.
Conditions & Services
Conditions we treat
We help patients with:- Balance disorders
- Cognitive impairments
- Cognitive disorders (awareness, attention, memory and reasoning skills)
- Fluency difficulties
- Gait impairments and imbalances
- Head and neck cancers
- Language disorders (verbal expression, comprehension, reading and writing)
- Low vision impairments
- Lymphedema or lipedema issues
- Orthopedic injuries
- Pain
- Pelvic health
- Post-operative rehab
- Neurological diagnoses (stroke, Parkinson’s disease, brain injury, spinal cord injury, multiple sclerosis, muscular dystrophy and others)
- Swallowing problems (dysphagia)
- Speech disorders
- Trauma
- Voice disorders
Specialized services
Adult rehabilitation at Wellstar MCG Health also provides specialized services to patients for:- Augmentative and alternative communication devices: We work with patients who need computer devices to supplement or replace speaking.
- Mechanical diagnosis and therapy: We offer a comprehensive assessment and treatment method that identifies the best movement patterns to decrease mechanical pain.
- Modified barium swallow studies: We take an X-ray of a patient swallowing to view muscle mechanisms that may not be working. Recommendations are made for appropriate techniques, exercises or diet changes to improve swallowing.
- Return-to-sport testing: We conduct data-driven strength and agility testing to determine the readiness and confidence of a patient to be able to return to their sport.
- Wheelchair assessments: We offer evaluations to patients requiring assistive mobility equipment. Our physical therapists work with wheelchair vendors to ensure optimal fitting for comfort, providing patients with safer mobility to function in their home environment.
Our Services
Physical Therapy
Orthotic and prosthetic services, as well as wheelchair seating evaluations, are also available, as needed. Physical therapy is an important part of rehabilitative care that focuses on improving patients’ movement and function, as well as managing their pain. The highly trained physical therapists at Wellstar MCG Health Medical Center offer expert care that’s backed by the latest rehabilitation and movement research to help you return to your daily activities as quickly and as safely as possible.Physical therapists work hand-in-hand with patients, their families and their care team to design the best treatment plan. Our goal is to improve:
- Balance
- Confidence in sport
- Endurance
- Functional mobility
- Gait
- Motor control
- Quality of life
- Range of motion
- Strength
- Work function
- Physical medicine and rehabilitation physicians
We accept referrals from community physicians, nurse practitioners and physician assistants, and will work to maintain a close relationship with your healthcare professional throughout your rehabilitation.
Occupational Therapy
When you suffer from injury, disability or illness, it can limit your ability to effectively engage in everyday work, school, self-care and leisure activities.Occupational Therapy at Wellstar MCG Health Medical Center helps patients recover the skills they need to perform activities that are instrumental to daily living, allowing greater overall independence and better quality of life.
Our goal is to help you improve:
- Activities needed for daily living
- Cognition
- Functional mobility
- Range of motion
- Sensory processing
- Social skills
- Strength
- Visual perception
Speech-Language Pathology
The ability to communicate and swallow is an essential part of daily life. When these abilities are compromised, quality of life is often negatively affected.The expert speech-language pathologists at Wellstar MCG Health Medical Center incorporate evidence-based practice in the evaluation and treatment of patients with speech-language and swallowing disorders.
These can include:
- Comprehension
- Effective swallowing
- Maximizing communication skills
- Reasoning skills
- Verbal expression