Acute Rehabilitation: Two Unique Services
Totally Kids Rehabilitation Hospital provides acute care for babies, children, adolescents and young adults from infant to 21 years of age who are recovering from injury, surgery or serious illness and have the potential for recovery and return to home. Offered on both an inpatient and outpatient basis, care is provided in an organized and systematic process that is designed to ensure the delivery of safe, effective and timely care in an atmosphere that promotes respect and caring for the patient and family.
Stress Management & Relaxation Training
Our acute rehabilitation care offers Stress Management & Relaxation Training as an invaluable intervention to our patients. This group is experiential with instruction and coaching facilitated by the therapist to assist the patient in gaining skills to control their stress level. These skills and techniques empower patients to be able to effectively reduce anxiety and pain as well as gain a sense of control over their body’s response to stress and pain. The focus of the training includes but is not limited to deep diaphragmatic controlled breathing, body scanning, visualization, progressive muscle relaxation, and autogenics. Our parents are always happy to see their child more relaxed and pain-free.
Community Resource Outings
Acute patients are also provided with the opportunity to participate in a Community Resource Outing. Community Resource Outings are designed to offer opportunities for patients to begin to venture out and explore the world during their recovery. Patients are able to begin experiencing life outside the four walls of the hospital; as well as enjoy the many leisure/social opportunities that are still available to them even in recovery. Outings bolster confidence, self-esteem, peer interaction/social skills, the ability to cope, decrease stress and provides motivation and enthusiasm for life. Our patients love these outings and are all smiles when we give them choices of what they would like to do for enjoyment and fun. Patients favorites are movies, lunch at a favorite restaurant, Starbucks, manicures, and many other exciting choices. Family members are welcome and encouraged to come along for the fun!
Here at Totally Kids, we believe that our acute rehabilitation services provide patients and their families a positive environment with recovery options that encourage families to participate in the care and treatment of their child. Stress Management & Relaxation Treatment and Community Resource Outings are just two such services we are proud to offer.
