Rehabilitation is help from a trained clinician to a patient to get back all or some of the functioning capabilities that were lost due to a particular illness. This is a time of healing where the patient is very active in their recovery process and it is a lot of hard work. There are three types of In-Patient Rehabilitation Lubbock to consider based on the clinician’s recommendation. Within a hospital, within a skilled nursing facility and the third type have special settings for such problems as brain injury or cardiac units for the heart.
To help determine which setting for In-Patient Rehabilitation is right for you, consider the goals of the process to better assess your choices. Rehab is suppose to help train the patient to do things on their own, in other words to become independent. Rehab is something that takes very active participation in part of the patient. The patient must be able to work with the people that are helping them and the setting may determine this. Secondary issues such as chronic health conditions are addressed but that is not the main goal of the in-patient treatment. The process should last, at most, a couple of weeks and is covered by most health insurance companies if prescribed by a doctor.
The three different types of In-Patient Rehabilitation Lubbock TX range from intense to less intense, to specialty. In the case of a hospital setting, this is categorized as the most intense. Three hours of therapy at least five days a week are mandatory. While participation is mandatory, it may be slow at first with a doctor monitoring the progress. A doctor will also only recommend this level of participation if patient is deemed physically capable.
Most patients that are released to a rehab facility are discharged to a SNF, or skilled nursing facility. The program is not as intense and it is considered as the final step if you were discharged from an IRF, or in-patient rehab facility, although they could advance into an IRF depending on results in the SNF.
Lastly, the special settings rehabilitation situations are just that, for specialty cases. For brain injury and cardiac unit patients, a rehab of sorts is needed to regain full motion or function after a particular type of illness.
