Full Rehabilitative Treatment and Support for Spinal Cord Injuries

年代pinal cord injury medicine helps a person rehabilitate after a nontraumatic or traumatic spinal cord injury. Penn State Health is home to a large, multidisciplinary program that includes board-certified spinal cord injury physicians, physical and occupational therapists, neuropsychologists, nutritionists, nurses and recreational therapists. With experience in a variety of therapies, their goal is to improve all aspects of their patients’ lives through comprehensive, holistic care.

Complete Care for the Whole Person

The spinal cord and brain make up the central nervous system (CNS). They work together to control most of your body’s voluntary and involuntary actions (like walking and blinking your eyes) and to interpret sensations (like smelling perfume or touching a hot stove).

When the spinal cord becomes damaged, your body’s ability to move and feel is affected. It can impact your ability to control your bowels and bladder which potentially could lead to pain and muscle tightness. But these injuries don’t just change you physically. The best rehabilitation plans also consider the emotional and social impact.

Our program cares for the whole person by offering therapies that address all impacts of the injury – the medical, emotional and social. Examples of our comprehensive services are:

• Adaptive equipment assessments to support activities of daily living
• Management for spinal cord injury-related pain
• Nutrition care for feeding or swallowing problems
• 物理和职业治疗重新开发强度和运动功能
• Recreational activities for physical and social benefits
• 痉挛性管理改善肌肉僵硬和痉挛
• 年代peech therapy to improve communication issues
• Treatment for bowel and bladder control, blood pressure and breathing problems
• Treatment for pressure sores

我们还致力于提供强大的社会支持服务。我们的社会支持服务包括：

• Peer mentoring program
• 使用工作日的经过认证的康复护士的电话支持
• 年代elf-care and caregiver training
• 脊髓损伤支持组
• Transitional care for patients with paraplegia or tetraplegia who are moving home from inpatient care

年代upport Throughout Your Recovery and Beyond

We provide care from initial hospitalization, through rehabilitation and beyond. Our specialists work with trauma surgeons, neurosurgeons and orthopedic surgeons at Penn State Health to start a patient’s rehabilitation as soon as possible. Once a patient is released from the hospital, they begin outpatient treatment that can continue throughout their lifetime if needed.

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年代pecialized, Multidisciplinary Care for All Types of Spinal Cord Injuries

At Penn State Health, patients with spinal cord injuries receive care from multiple specialists. These providers have extensive training and experience treating both traumatic (caused by an accident or another type of blow to the spinal cord) and nontraumatic (caused by a medical condition such as osteoarthritis of the spine, spinal tumors or spinal infection) spinal cord injuries. By combining their skills, they deliver the most complete rehabilitative care and ensure the best possible outcomes.

CARF认证脊髓损伤计划

宾夕法尼亚州康复医院已达到康复设施委员会（CARF）委员会设定的脊髓损伤医学的彻底标准。作为CARF认证的设施，我们得到了我们的高品质脊髓损伤和成功的患者结果。

支持团体

支持小组提供了与正在经历类似斗争的其他患者和护理人员与其他患者和护理人员分享自己的感受。

Learn more about support groups offered