MaineHealth offers expert rehabilitation services that help home care patients improve their speech, movement, strength and endurance. Our expert physical therapists, occupational therapists and speech language pathologists provide home rehabilitation services in southern and mid coast Maine.
What is rehabilitation therapy at home?
The goal of home rehabilitation care is to help you reach your best functional outcome. Our multi-disciplinary approach to patient-centered care includes individual treatment plans focused on:
- Regaining movement, strength, balance, speech, cognition, mobility and independence
- Returning to work, sport or activities of daily living
- Educating patients and caregivers
When needed, close collaboration with other MaineHealth specialists is an important part of our care.
Home rehabilitation services
MaineHealth provides a wide range of home rehabilitation services, including, but not limited to:
- Physical therapy: Physical therapists work with patients to improve movement and strength after an accident, injury or illness.
- Occupational therapy: Occupational therapists help patients with physical and cognitive skills needed for activities such as bathing, dressing and preparing meals.
- Speech language pathology: Speech therapists help patients learn to speak more clearly/loudly, to better understand speech and to use adaptive communication tools. They also help patients who have difficulty swallowing due to injury or illness.
- Post-operative care: Therapists provide post-operative home safety evaluations and education, adaptive equipment assessments, pain management and therapeutic services.
- Orthopedic rehabilitation: Orthopedic rehabilitation helps patients recovering from joint replacement surgery regain strength and independence.
- Cardiopulmonary rehabilitation: Cardiopulmonary rehabilitation therapists help patients with heart and lung disease regain strength and independence.
- Stroke rehabilitation: Stroke rehabilitation helps patients who have experienced stroke maximize their communication and motor skills.
- Balance and falls education: Therapists help patients reduce the risk of falls through home modifications, balance training and general health management.
Talk to your primary care provider to learn more about rehabilitation services for you or a loved one. A provider referral is required for home rehabilitation care.
