Specialized stroke rehabilitation

• Toronto Rehab’s Neurological Rehabilitation Program, which comprises the Stroke Service, is Canada’s largest rehabilitation program for individuals who have suffered a stroke, brain injury or other neurological condition. This magnitude gives Toronto Rehab an unparalleled wealth of experience treating stroke patients and helping them rebuild their lives.
• This experience, combined with its range of patient care programming, position Toronto Rehab uniquely to manage co-morbidities that are common in stroke patients, such as sleep apnea.
• Patients have direct access to special Toronto Rehab clinics that augment rehab care, such as the Augmentative and Alternative Communication Clinic. This clinic was one of the first in Canada to use customized, touch screen computers as communication aids for people with language disorders associated with stroke.
• An interprofessional team of clinician-scientists, who have trained extensively in a wide range of physical, cognitive, behavioural and emotional conditions and issues related to stroke, including paralysis, aphasia, memory loss and psychological change, delivers stroke rehabilitation. This breadth enables far more comprehensive care than the standard combination of occupational therapy and physiotherapy. Toronto Rehab uses a physiatrist-led interprofessional approach to care from assessment to discharge.
• Toronto Rehab played a leadership role in the development of the national specialty certification in rehabilitation nursing and has several certified rehabilitation nurses on staff.
• The hospital’s range of programming and its many professional partnerships facilitate timely, streamlined access to additional specialty physicians, as necessary.

Recommend Toronto Rehab to your stroke patients so they can benefit from the remarkable outcomes that are made possible by our comprehensive, specialized, leading-edge and individualized service.

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