If you or a loved one have had surgery, have suffered a serious injury or have a long-term debilitating health condition, medical rehabilitation is crucial to your overall well-being. While your life challenges can seem overwhelming, inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation services rebuild real skills, resiliency and hope. Here’s how rehab specialists can help you set attainable goals, track your progress and celebrate your achievements.
The Multi-disciplinary Approach to Rehabilitation
Severe injuries, complex orthopedic surgeries and chronic health conditions impact how a person lives day to day. These condition can even impact how a person views their ability to enjoy a productive, independent life.
The challenges are great if you have multiple sclerosis, have lost a limb in an accident, suffered a traumatic brain injury or had a stroke. However, you don’t have to deal with these struggles alone.
It takes a multi-disciplinary approach to rehabilitate to a realistic and achievable level of function. At Carrus Health, our rehab team includes physicians, speech therapists, physical therapists, dieticians and nutritionists, psychiatrists who are all here to help you.
Whether you need intensive inpatient services at our beautiful facility in Sherman, Texas, or can recover and rehab on an outpatient basis, our multi-pronged, individualized approach will center on you and what you wish to attain.
A multi-disciplinary approach helps to motivate, change behavior, improve basic skills and more. Plus, your agreed-upon goals and progress will be fully and accurately documented and adjusted as you travel along the path to your best life. You supply the work, positivity, resilience and an investment of the time you realistically need to be as independent and functional as you can be.
How Can My Therapist and I Set Realistic Goals in Rehab?
There are many goal-setting models which help patients and their healthcare providers navigate the not-so-linear path to optimal wellness and function. As team members work with the patient to modify behaviors, improve skills and measure results, the SMART model of goal setting proves to be exceptionally helpful.
What does SMART goal setting look like? It means goals should have these characteristics:
- Specific, such as being able to safely climb stairs or live independently in a home or apartment
- Measurable, in such a way as certain benchmarks are outlined and then achieved bit by bit
- Attainable, according to the patient’s injury or condition and other physical, mental and emotional factors
- Realistic, motivating the patient to take small measurable steps and building toward skills related to real life activities, such as dressing, driving and speaking clearly
- Time-related, such as being able to return to work within six weeks
The SMART model gives people who are recovering, regaining skills or forming new ones hope and motivation as they see real progress being measured, written down and celebrated.
How Carrus Health Rehabilitation Hospital Can Help You
If you and your primary care physician believe you are ready to begin a new way of living, please contact the caring, experienced team at Carrus Health Rehabilitation Hospital in Sherman, Texas. We help patients and their families set real, attainable goals, encouraging them with measurable evidence of progress.
Call (903) 870-2600 to learn more about our services and our state of the art, comfortable and patient-centered facility.
