Spinal Cord Injury | Patient Care Team | Goal Oriented Treatment Approach | Patients Benefit | Family Involvement | Role of the Case Manager | Outpatient Follow-Up Care | Accrediations | Kernan's Academic Advantage | Practice Location
Kernan's Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation Program provides clinical evaluation, medical care and therapeutic activities tailored to each patient's individual goals, needs and abilities. Comprehensive rehabilitation services are provided to help patients recover daily living skills, achieve community re-entry, and address any problems in areas such as:
Patients receive physical, occupational, speech/language and recreational therapy six days a week to help them reach their rehabilitation goals. The Spinal Cord Injury Program places a strong emphasis on patient/caregiver education, offering a comprehensive program addressing the following topics such as:
Patients admitted to the inpatient component of the Spinal Cord Injury Program must be able to actively participate in three or more hours of therapy daily. The length of stay for spinal cord injury patients varies depending on individual need from between approximately two to eight weeks. Over eighty percent of our patients return home after discharge. Day hospital patients attend between two to three hours of therapy per day, but then return home each evening. Patients and their families are encouraged to attend the monthly spinal cord injury support group meetings held in the evenings. Those meetings are open to both current inpatients as well as individuals with spinal cord injury living in the community.