When a patient suffers a traumatic injury to their spinal cord or brain, they will often lose feeling and function in their muscles, extremities, and even speech centers. For them to potentially regain that movement and control, they must endure prolonged neuro physical therapy that involves consistent exercises designed to restore movement in those muscles, extremities, and speech centers so they can regain a better quality of life. This will usually begin as inpatient neuro physical therapy that takes within a hospital or treatment center, but as the patient progresses, it is possible that outpatient neuro physical therapy can be an option for the patient to continue their recovery. Learn more about what outpatient neuro physical therapy is and how it can help a patient below.
How Does Outpatient Neuro Physical Therapy Differ from Inpatient Neuro Physical Therapy?
This type of therapy differs in that the therapy will be applied at a physical therapy clinic or at an outpatient rehabilitation center at a hospital as compared to within a hospital’s or medical facility’s main unit. Outpatient therapy will only occur if the physicians and medical experts believe the patent is strong enough to continue the rehabilitation process away from the hospital’s main unit and facilities.
How Does Outpatient Therapy Help a Patient?
Outpatient therapy can help a patient by developing routines and exercises that the patient can do away from the outpatient center at home and elsewhere. This way, the patient can continue working toward gaining as much mobility and control as possible away from the outpatient center, which is often key to patients regaining all or most of the mobility they lost from the traumatic injury they suffered or the degenerative neurological condition that has developed.
Moody Neuro has the resources, programs, and services to provide effective outpatient neuro physical therapy to patients who have suffered a traumatic injury or developed a degenerative neurological disorder. Learn more about our programs and services at https://www.moodyneuro.org/.
