Rehabilitation Therapy

Our Mission - Clinical Excellence and Caring Support 

Whether you are in need of a healthcare partner to provide rehabilitation services after a sports or work injury or a patient recovering from stroke, heart, or lung disease,  we have the expertise and help you need!

Our physical, occupational, and speech therapists have dedicated themselves to clinical excellence, while maintaining the caring that is St.Vincent Mercy Hospital.

Rehabilitation Programs

Our rehabilitation programs can help address:

• Soft-tissue injuries, weaknesses, and balance disorders
• Back and neck pain
• Arm, wrist, and hand pain
• Communication and swallow problems
• Endurance and breathing difficulties for patients with heart and lung disease

Customized Education Programs

Our customized education programs include:  

• Customized education programs for business, community, and school groups
• Consultation for businesses related to ergonomics and return-to-work programs through our Occupational Health Office

Special Services

Our special services include:

• Lymphedema care
• Wound care
• Spine pain
• Sports injuries
• Chronic pain

Urinary Incontinence

Are you afraid of embarrassing moments following a sneeze or laughter? If you suffer from urinary incontinence, help is here. Urinary incontinence affects about 17 million Americans, most of them women, but only a fraction of those people seek treatment. Many may benefit from nonsurgical treatment—physical therapy.

First, you should work with your physician to determine what type of incontinence you have, whether it’s stress incontinence or urge incontinence:

• Stress incontinence is the loss of urine during physical movement such as when exercising or while sneezing, laughing, or coughing.  This can result from weakened pelvic floor muscles after childbirth, during menopause, or from poor posture.
• Urge incontinence, on the other hand, occurs when the bladder muscle contracts at the wrong time.  The cause of urge incontinence is often harder to identify.  Possibilities include neurological disorders, urinary tract infections, or bladder irritants.

How Physical Therapy Can Improve Your Symptoms

After your condition has been identified, physical therapists can suggest a variety of therapeutic approaches.  The most common training is Kegel exercises, which work the pelvic floor muscles used in controlling urination.

Other physical therapy options include:

• Biofeedback training
• Bladder retraining
• Electrical stimulation
• Use of vaginal weights to strengthen pelvic floor muscles

For more information on the Women’s Health Program or to schedule an appointment, call (765) 552-8460.

Physical Therapy Support for a Woman’s Health

Each year, too many women suffer in silence from problems such as urinary incontinence, chronic pain, pelvic floor dysfunction, and lymphedema. If you have one of these conditions, St.Vincent Mercy Hospital offers a program specific to your health needs.

To help those with each of the conditions, physical therapists with the Women’s Health Program will:

• First take a detailed medical history
• Have patients undergo a comprehensive internal and external musculoskeletal exam, after which medical professionals will create an individualized treatment plan
• Recommend treatment, which varies from patient to patient and may include lifestyle changes, Kegel exercises, biofeedback, electrical stimulation, and soft tissue mobilization