The MaineHealth Memorial Hospital Rehabilitation Medicine team includes occupational therapists, physical therapists and speech therapists. Our is to help people regain independence following illness, injury or surgery.
Expert rehabilitation care, close to home
We are dedicated to helping people improve, maintain and restore their physical strength, cognition and function. We work with patients, family and caregivers through treatment, training and education.
Our Services
Occupational therapy (OT) helps people of all ages live life to its fullest despite illness, injury or disability. Treatment is focused on activities of daily living (bathing, dressing, feeding); home management; safety; and upper extremity range-of-motion, strength and function.
Our Services
- Activities of daily living (ADLs)/ home management training
- Recommendations for adaptive equipment and training
- Hand, wrist, elbow and shoulder dysfunction
- Custom static splinting for the hand and wrist
- Cognitive assessments/retraining
- Energy conservation and work simplification training with cardio/pulmonary patients
- Pre-operative teaching classes for total joint candidates and shoulder surgeries
Physical therapy helps to restore function, improves mobility, relieves pain and prevents or limits physical disabilities following injury or disease. Treatment often includes exercises that focus on improving strength, balance, coordination and endurance. We provide education on the safe use of assistive devices such as walkers, canes and crutches to provide stability with walking and mobility.
Our Services
- Evaluations and treatments for inpatients
- Assistive device training for ambulatory surgery or emergency department patients
- Pre-operative teaching classes for total joint candidates
- Balance/vestibular therapy
Physical therapy is movement and exercise-based treatment that addresses your specific health condition and helps you achieve your functional goals. Physical therapists have extensive knowledge of the body and are experts in movement analysis. Physical therapy can help you:
- Manage your pain
- Achieve better balance and reduce fear of falling
- Manage chronic conditions
- Regain movement after surgery
- Treat or avoid sport related injuries
- Manage development disorders
Treatment starts with a one-on-one consultation with your physical therapist to assess your condition. The therapist will ask about your family and medical history. They will take you through range of motion and strength testing, and perform special testing based on your diagnosis and needs. Your physical therapist will then develop a personalized treatment plan based on your unique goals. You will see the same physical therapist each visit, and treatment times range anywhere from 30-60 minutes depending on your specific needs.
Our Services
- Consultation and assessment
- Evidence-based manual therapy techniques
- Therapeutic exercise
- Balance training/fall prevention/vestibular therapy
- Gait training
- Neurological rehabilitation
- Patient education & home exercise plans
- Other modalities to help you feel and move better
Commonly Treated Conditions
- Balance problems
- Cancer
- Concussion management
- Orthopedic conditions & injuries
- Pain management
- Back pain, spine and neck disorders
- Hypermobility disorders
- Parkinson's Disease
- Stroke
- Post-surgery rehab
- Pediatric developmental disorders
- TMJ disorder
Our expert speech therapist assesses, diagnoses and treats developmental and acquired disorders of speech, language, cognitive-communication, voice, swallowing and fluency.
Our Services
- Modified barium swallow evaluations
- Cognitive assessment/retraining
- Aphasia assessments
- Augmented communication
- Voice training/articulation
- Swallowing dysfunction treatment
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