Spine injury rehabilitation is a specialized program that aids recovery and manages the after-effects of an injury related to the spinal cord of the human body. ASA HEALTHCARE's comprehensive spinal injury rehabilitation team helps persons with spinal injuries to adapt to a new way of life. We help meet patients with a spinal cord injury ongoing needs, provide spinal cord injury-specific education, and help them successfully re-enter their community. We also help provide emotional support and improve our patient's physical and mental functioning.
Who can benefit from our Spine Injury Rehabilitation program
A person may develop a spinal cord injury due to various reasons. At ASA HEALTHCARE, our spinal cord injury rehab program is for all people with causes of traumatic or nontraumatic spinal cord injuries, such as spinal cord infection, transverse myelitis, spinal cord tumors, and other conditions. Doctors recommend people suffering from spinal cord injury take spinal injury rehab. If you recently underwent surgery or developed an injury related to the spinal cord, you should reach out to the rehab program. Our spinal cord rehab program helps you improve mobility, coordination, and balance. Our rehab team also helps patients relieve mental and physiological symptoms they may have developed due to spinal cord injury. We design specific rehab programs and follow the most appropriate treatment plan for each patient so that they can recover quickly.
What are the conditions that our Spine Injury Rehabilitation is suitable for?
The spinal cord is one of the essential parts of the human body that acts as a transmitter of signals, messages, and commands from the brain to cells or tissues throughout the body. It comprises a long tube of tissue connecting the brain to the lumbar spine region. Any damage to the person's spinal cord can affect the ability to make voluntary movements and bodily sensations. Here are two types of spinal cord injury:
- Incomplete spinal injury
A person with an incomplete injury may be able to perform most tasks related to the spinal cord. The body and brain can still communicate along specific pathways. However, it can cause paralysis on one or both sides of the body.
- Complete spinal cord injury
A complete injury in a person causes total paralysis (loss of function), and it affects both sides of the body. A person with a complete injury may cause paralysis of the lower half of the body (paraplegia) or all four limbs (quadriplegia). At ASA HEALTHCARE, our spinal injury rehab is suitable for both types of spinal cord injury.
Symptoms of Spine Injury
The spinal injury affects various body parts, such as muscle movement, reflexes, sensations, breathing, and more. A person with spinal injury indicates these symptoms:
- Loss of bladder or bowel control.
- Weakness in the arms, legs, or both.
- Unusual lumps along the spine.
- Decreased sensation in the arms or legs.
- Difficulty breathing.
- Respiratory infections such as pneumonia.
- Severe pain or pressure in the back or neck.
If you think you or someone you know has these symptoms, get medical help immediately. You should also consider the rehab program if you need help getting back on your feet or developing your body's sensations.
What does our Spine Injury Rehab program include?
At ASA HEALTHCARE, we understand that spinal cord injury survivors require help improving their physical, emotional, and mental functionality. So, we designed an integrated spinal cord injury rehabilitation program that includes various therapies, diets, and treatment plans. Our Spine Injury Rehab program includes:
- Physical therapy to support spine and disc rehabilitation. We also provide physical therapy for back surgery.
- Electrical stimulation of damaged nerves to regain sensations.
- Pain management to reduce or eliminate the pain after surgery or injury.
- Manual therapies, such as massage and traction. It helps increase the functional strength of muscles.
- Assistive technologies to improve independence and well-being for a spinal cord injury survivor.
- Orthopedic rehabilitation helps patients recover from injuries affecting bones, muscles, and joints.
- Psychological counseling helps patients fight the depression and anxiety they develop from a spinal injury.
- Support for re-entering the community and helping redevelop social and behavioral skills.
- Nutrition management for the spinal injury survivor's fitness.
Our Spine Injury Rehabilitation team
ASA HEALTHCARE's team of professional healthcare providers supports people with spinal injuries. Our dedicated and friendly team makes each rehab session fun and enjoyable so that you can recover faster. Some of our experienced healthcare professionals include:
- Critical care doctor
- Physiotherapist
- Neurologist
- Neurosurgeon
- Physical medicine and rehabilitation
- Social worker
- Psychologist/psychiatrist
- Orthopedist/orthopedic surgeon
- Physiatrist
- Case manager
- Vocational counselor
- Rehabilitation specialists
- Registered dietitian
- Physical therapist
- Other specialty doctors
How does our Spine Injury Rehabilitation benefit people with spine injuries?
At ASA HEALTHCARE, we provide various services in our spinal injury rehab program. Some of our specialty services include:
- Electrotherapy
We used proven modern electrotherapy practices in our rehab program. Our profession is performing TENS and FES methods of electrical stimulation, which aid the recovery of muscle function after spinal injury.
- Physical activity
Our spinal injury rehab program includes strength and cardiovascular training that help patients train their muscles. We design an exercise plan for spinal cord injury survivors to strengthen the partially paralyzed muscles.
- Stretching
Stretching is essential to our rehab program as it helps overcome the passive lengthening of muscles and hypertonicity. We provide various stretching methods, such as weight bearing, splinting, manual stretching, and more, ideal for our patients.
- Physiotherapy Management
We also provide physiotherapy management that helps spinal injury survivors live independent lives. Other services we provide include speech and language therapy, occupational therapy, and so on.
Talk with our consultant.
At ASA HEALTHCARE, we are available to help detect, prevent, treat, and manage conditions related to the spinal cord. Our dedicated team of professionals offers programs competing in multiple therapies as one. We aim to help every spinal injury survivor regain physical, mental, and emotional functioning.
To find out how we can support you or a loved one to recover from a spinal cord injury, book an appointment with our consultant. Our experienced and friendly experts will be happy to answer your specific questions about the rehab program.