As the field of rehabilitation has expanded so has a recognition that individuals with disabilities from a variety of conditions would benefit from comprehensive rehabilitation. These individuals are managed through the Specialty Rehabilitation Programs through a partnership between UTHealth Houston and TIRR Memorial Hermann.
Rehabilitation treatments offered at UT Physicians
Some of the disorders managed include but are not limited to:
- Cancer
- Brain injury and stroke
- Spinal cord injury
- Amputation
- Rehabilitation and survivorship
- Burn injuries
- Multiple trauma
- Guillain-Barré syndrome and peripheral nerve disorders
- Multiple sclerosis
- Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and other neurodegenerative disorders
- Parkinson’s disease and other movement disorders
- Disability resulting from poliomyelitis
- Myopathy
- Post organ transplantation complications
- Recovery from joint arthroplasty and other orthopedic procedures
- Debility from medical illness
Our physicians have specialization in each of these conditions and create a rehabilitation that is tailored to the individual’s needs. This is vital as many of these disorders have complications that are unique to them and require different approaches to rehabilitation.
