Specialized Rehabilitation Therapy
Rehabilitation helps you recover from an injury, illness or surgery. You regain health and strength.
At Lahey Clinic, we use a team approach to rehab, creating the best care plan for you. Our experts partner with your doctors. Together, we recommend therapies to give you the best results.
Access to all rehabilitation services are by physician-referral only.
Benefits of Rehabilitation
Rehabilitation improves your health in many ways, such as:
- Allowing you to avoid (or delay) surgery.
- Improving strength before and after surgery.
- Preventing future injuries.
- Promoting positive lifestyle changes.
- Recovering after an injury or illness.
- Treating certain conditions or symptoms.
At Lahey, we provide many types of inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation therapies to help you achieve as much independence as possible.
More About Rehabilitation
At Lahey, you can access physiatry services. A physiatrist specializes in physical medicine and rehabilitation (PM&R), which includes:
- Diagnosis and treatment of musculoskeletal injuries and pain syndromes.
- Electrodiagnostic medicine.
- Rehab for patients with severe impairments.
Physiatrists treat sports and work injuries. We manage degenerative conditions like arthritis or lower back pain. We help reduce your pain and improve overall function.
Your physiatry team may include the following:
- Occupational therapists
- Physical therapists
- Psychologists
- Recreational therapists
- Rehabilitation nurses
- Social workers
- Speech-language pathologists
- Other specialists as needed
About Our Physiatrists
Our physiatrists are specially trained, each having earned a Doctor of Medicine (MD) or Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (DO) degree.
Like MDs, DOs are fully licensed physicians and surgeons who practice the full scope of medicine. MDs and DOs complete similar education and training.
Trained to treat the whole person, DOs receive extra training in the bones, joints and muscles. DOs combine conventional medicine and surgery with manual therapy called osteopathic manipulative medicine.
Lahey physiatrists are sub-specialty trained in pain medicine. Pain medicine physicians diagnose and treat many debilitating conditions.
Physiatry Treatments
Physiatry treatment aims to help you function without pain. Your care may include any of these non-surgical treatments:
- Alternative medicine techniques
- Behavioral medicine approaches
- Fluoroscopically guided sacroiliac injections
- Interventional procedures
- Narcotic and non-narcotic medications
- Neuro-modulatory techniques (spinal cord and peripheral nerve stimulation systems)
- Occipital nerve blocks
- Osteopathic manipulative medicine
- Physical medicine approaches
- Radiofrequency ablation of the cervical, thoracic and lumbar spine
- Spinal injections (diagnostic medial branch blocks, fluoroscopically guided cervical and lumbar epidural steroid injections, or intra-articular facet blocks)
- Sympathetic blocks (stellate ganglion and lumbar sympathetic plexus)
- Trigger point injection therapy
If your doctor prescribes rehabilitation services, be sure to complete your therapy. This care reduces your pain and improves your flexibility and mobility.
Orthopedic Rehabilitation
Learn what to expect during your recovery from an illness or surgery by exploring our orthopedic rehabilitation guides.
Elbow
Foot
Hip
Knee
- Distal femoral and proximal tibial microfracture
- Distal femoral/proximal tibial microfracture and autologous chondrocyte implantation (ACI)
- Distal femoral/proximal tibial microfracture and osteochondral autograft transplantation (OATS)
- Medial patellofemoral ligament (MPFL) reconstruction with concomitant tibial tubercle transfer (TTT)
Shoulder
Wrist & Hand
Spine Rehabilitation
Learn about the rehabilitation plan for spine surgeries:
Liver Transplant Rehabilitation
Learn about the rehabilitation plan for a liver transplant.
Additional Services
Your rehabilitation team coordinates your care with other specialists at our medical center. This ensures you receive comprehensive, streamlined care.
