The patient’s ability to sit up, the amount of endurance the patient has to tolerate therapy, as well as his or her medical and nursing needs, determine the ability to participate in therapy services.

Inpatient Therapy

Q: Are therapy sessions offered on the weekends?

Individual weekend therapy (Saturday or Sunday) is offered to patients on a priority basis depending on multiple factors, one of which is the day of the patient’s admission.

Q: How often are the therapy sessions?

The goal for acute inpatient rehabilitation is to provide a minimum of three hours of therapy per day, Monday through Friday.

Q: Is there a program for pediatric patients?

For more information on pediatric therapies, KIDNETICS is a department of Prisma Health Children’s Hospital–Upstate that provides therapeutic services for children on an inpatient and outpatient basis from birth to age 21. Learn More

Q: Where are the therapy sessions located?

Therapy is mostly provided in one of our many gym areas: 1st-floor main gym, 2nd-floor gym, and 3rd-floor gym as well as our home lab.

Several therapies are provided by our inpatient therapy team, including:

Occupational therapy
Physical therapy
Speech therapy
Recreational therapy

Occupational therapy

Occupational therapy services provide evaluation and treatment to improve patients’ functional skills, increase self-sufficiency, and improve the quality of life. Specific services include the following:

Assessing the performance of self-care tasks and advanced activities of daily living such as cooking, child care, and money management
Provision of adaptive equipment
Rehabilitation of upper extremities/hand injuries
Fabrication of splints or casts to increase mobility and prevent joint contractures
Enhancing memory, attention span, problem-solving and decision-making skills
Addressing visual-perceptual deficits through compensatory strategies
Therapeutic activities to increase strength, range of motion and motor control
Technologies and modalities such as electrical stimulation and Vision Coach
Assessing low vision and visual perceptual skills that impact activities of daily living
Driver Rehabilitation Program

Physical therapy

Physical therapy services include the evaluation and treatment of patients requiring neurological or musculoskeletal rehabilitation or wound care. Specific services include the following:

Therapeutic exercises to regain mobility, strength and balance
Mobility training to gain independence with walking or maneuvering a wheelchair
Treatment of neck and back pain
The use of specialized manual techniques to improve tissue function, which could include soft tissue mobilization, functional orthopedic approach, muscle energy, strain/counter strain, and joint mobilizations
Technologies and modalities such as electrical stimulation, iontophoresis, ultrasound and MotoMed
Wheelchair evaluation/assessment to provide patients with access to vendors and therapists for wheelchair seating and positioning needs, often including the use of Pressure Mapping System
Lymphedema management

Speech therapy

Our speech-language pathologists offer a comprehensive scope of services including assessment and treatment for patients with communication, cognitive or swallowing difficulties to make a functional difference in their daily lives. Services include:

Videofluoroscopic swallowing evaluations and treatment for difficulty swallowing
Evaluation and treatment of speech-language and cognitive impairments related to stroke and other neurological conditions
Rehabilitation for people with a tracheostomy
Augmentative alternative communication assessments
Addressing motor speech disorders such as verbal apraxia and dysarthria
Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulation for the treatment of swallowing disorders
Patient and caregiver education and training, which is an important component of treatment sessions