Acute Care

Time-Sensitive Health Conditions

The Department of Rehabilitation at UConn Health offers physical therapy, occupational therapy, and speech-language pathology services to patients hospitalized in our University Tower and Connecticut Tower. Our therapy team is part of the patient’s larger inter-professional team of providers. Based upon a comprehensive evaluation and individual treatment responses, we make recommendations regarding safety, mobility, function, and/or diet throughout the hospital stay as well as during the discharge process.

Physical Therapy Goals

• Improve range of motion, strength, posture, mobility, balance, and gait.
• Recommend appropriate assistive devices (walkers, canes, crutches) and instruct in safe use.
• Recommend safe discharge disposition (home, rehab, home with PT services).
• Recommend safe mobility while the patient is in the hospital.

Occupational Therapy Goals

• Improve self care tasks, assess cognition, improve strength, balance, coordination, assess safety with medication management, splinting/positioning, educate on energy conservation strategies.
• Recommend compensatory strategies and adaptive equipment to improve independence with self care.
• Recommend safe discharge disposition (home, rehab, home with OT services).

Speech-Language Pathology

• Speech Therapy

Related Topics

National Websites

• American Physical Therapy Association
• American Occupational Therapy Association
• American Speech-Language-Hearing Association