Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation

Allied Rehab Hospital houses one of the nation's leading spinal cord injury (SCI) rehabilitation programs staffed by a board-certified physiatrist.  We provide a full array of services for all stages of recovery. 

Programs and Services

Our Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation program offers a comprehensive approach to treating the complex physical and emotional aspects of spinal cord injury, including:
• Cognitive and emotional issues	• Respiratory disorders
• Impaired muscle strength or coordination	• Sensation
• Loss of bladder and/or bowel control	• Spasticity
• Paraplegia	• Other complications such as deep vein thrombosis, pressure sores, heterotopic ossification, abnormal blood pressure or body temperature control
• Quadriplegia/tetraplegia

Services offered:
• Medication assessment/management	• Rehabilitation technology
• Nutritional services	• Rehabilitative nursing
• Occupational therapy	• Respiratory/pulmonary therapy*
• Physical therapy	• Social services
• Psychological evaluations/services	• Speech pathology
• Recreational therapy

*Patients who are ventilator dependent or require advanced respiratory therapy are cared for in our Skilled Nursing Center.

Evaluations and therapies offered:
• Activities of daily living (ADL) in an apartment setting	• Mobility evaluation and training
• Adaptive sports and recreation	• Pain management
• Aquatic therapy	• Patient and family counseling
• Assistive devices	• Patient and family education
• Body-weight supported treadmill training	• Peer visitor program
• Bowel and bladder management	• Referral to community services
• Community reintegration	• Seating/positioning
• Comprehensive medical management	• Sexuality/ fertility education and counseling
• Computerized neuromuscular retraining	• Skin management
• Driver evaluation, retraining, adaptive devices	• Spasticity
• Environment evaluation and modification	• Stress management and emotional support
• Functional electrical stimulation (FES)	• Videofluoroscopy (swallow studies)
• Gait evaluation and training

For more information please call toll free (888) REHAB.PA, locally (570) 348-1359
or email desken@allied-services.org.