• Home
• Patients & Visitors
  • Maps, Directions & Websites
  • Floor Plans & Parking
  • Preparing for Surgery
  • Preparing for Endoscopy
  • Request Medical Records
  • Visiting Hours
  • Donate an Organ
  • Gift Shop
  • WiFi
  • CaringBridge
  • Patient TV & Phone
  • Notice of Privacy Practice
  • Uninsured Discount Program
• Services & Specialties
  • All Services
  • Cancer Center
  • New Beginnings Maternity Center
  • Emergency & Trauma Center
  • Urgent Care
• Find a Doctor
  • Physician Directory
  • Physician Referral
  • Medical Offices & Websites
  • Types of Doctors
• Careers
  • Career Opportunities
  • Nursing
  • Benefits & Services
• Medical Education
  • Graduate Medical Education
  • Medical Students
• Health Information
  • Health Library
  • Classes & Support Groups
  • Calendar
• About Us
  • Contact Us
  • Fast Facts
  • History
  • Mission & Vision
  • Newsroom
  • Quality & Safety Information
  • Vendor Registration
  • Multi-Media Library
• Donate & Volunteer
  • Make a Donation
  • Volunteering
• Online Services
  • Request an Appointment
  • Make a Payment
  • Email a Patient
  • Refill a Prescription
  • Place a Gift Shop Order
  • Select Meals for a Patient

Botsford Hospital
28050 Grand River Ave.
Farmington Hills, MI 48336-5919
(248) 471-8000
Map Contact Us

Get social with Botsford

Botsford HealthSource Magazine

Botsford Helps You Heal

Exercise Your Options with Rehab

When you’re recovering from an injury, surgery or a major health event, such as a stroke, you want to get back to your old self as quickly as possible. Trouble is, you may not feel like doing much. That’s where rehabilitation comes in. It combines exercise, pain control and lifestyle advice. A team of experts, such as your doctor, nurses and physical and occupational therapists, will help you push yourself to become more active and independent.

“Rehab can help you get back to your regular routine,” says Stephen Hyman, M.D., director of the inpatient rehab unit at Botsford Hospital. It can also help prevent complications. After a stroke, for example, working with a physical therapist can help keep your joints limber, so that when strength returns to your arms and legs, you’re good to go. Here are more ways rehab can help you recoup your quality of life:

• Bounce back from injury. If you’ve broken your hip or had knee replacement surgery, a physical therapist can help you master using different aids, such as a walker or a cane, until you can walk unassisted. If you’ve had hand surgery, an occupational therapist can help you learn to do daily tasks, such as cooking, to compensate for any temporary deficits.
  
  
• Minimize side effects. During and after treatment for breast cancer, a physical therapist can teach you exercises to reduce the symptoms of lymphedema, a common side effect in which excess fluid collects in the arm next to the treated breast, causing swelling and soreness.
  
  
• Regain speech. Following a stroke, rehab with a speech therapist can help you relearn how to speak and swallow.  Speech therapists can also help if you are having problems singing, experiencing chronic laryngitis or a rasping voice.
  
  
• Manage ongoing symptoms. With chronic conditions, such as lung disease, pulmonary rehabilitation teaches you to manage shortness of breath. You can have rehab at the hospital or at any Botsford outpatient therapy center. Your therapist may also recommend exercises to perform on your own between appointments. For the biggest payoff, do your homework. “You’ll get out of rehab what you put into it,” Dr. Hyman says.

Helping You Heal

A mom with multiple sclerosis is too weak to dance with her daughters. A writer with carpal tunnel has a tough time using a keyboard. A jazz singer loses her voice to chronic laryngitis. Each person has a different condition. Botsford Hospital can help them all. Botsford can boost your strength, balance, mobility, speech--and ultimately, your independence.

Do you have an injury, disability or pain? From breathing problems to stroke, Botsford has a rehabilitation program for you, with both inpatient and outpatient rehab. Botsford can also help with balance issues, heart problems, work- and sports-related injuries and arthritis. Licensed and certified staff works one-on-one to assist patients in meeting their personal goals.

Pain and disability don’t have to be permanent. If you are hurting or unable to do the things you love, let Botsford lend a hand.

Resources:

Botsford Hospital Rehabilitation Programs