Proactive Home Health Program.
Care at home starts here.
Get the right care at home, with your questions answered and concerns addressed by the caring professionals at Paradigm. Click to request info or call us now: 903.581.1223.
Home health starts here.
Get home health started right, with your questions answered and concerns addressed by the caring professionals at Paradigm.
Click to request info or call us now:
903.581.1223
Getting back to a better life.
Almost everyone experiences back pain sometimesābut for some people, it becomes a serious barrier to living well. For both surgical and non-surgical patients, Paradigm Home Health has the expertise to enhance rehabilitation, including experience in the newest therapy interventions. Our Proactive Spine Care Plan can help get patients back to the lives they love by focusing on clear goals:
- Control and minimize pain
- Promote optimum healing
- Regain strength, balance, and mobility
- Eliminate fatigue
- Improve spine stability and protection
- Resume normal activities safely
Common Diagnosis & Procedures
Paradigmās Proactive Spine Care Plan can be customized for patients recovering from a variety of surgeries or diagnoses:
Procedures
- Lumbar fusion and non-fusion
- Cervical fusion and non-fusion
- Kyphoplasty
- Vertebroplasty
- Injection procedures
Diagnosis
- Stenosis
- Degenerative disc disease
- Radiculopathy
- Spinal instability
- Spasticity
- Mechanical disorders (Loss of motion, postural weakness, gait deviations, etc.)
- Osteoporosis
- Arthritis
- Adult scoliosis
Step 1
Evaluate and formulate.
Rehabilitation begins with a thorough Physical Therapy Evaluation. The therapist will discuss the condition with the patient and formulate a set of customized goals. Once those goals are established, specific steps can be outlined for reaching them.
Step 2
Training for progress.
Following the interventions identified during the evaluation, the therapist will work with the patient to achieve specific goals. In addition to providing hands-on therapy, the therapist may also help the patient learn:
These steps will help the patient realize improved balance with the spine functioning as the bodyās anchor, as well as increased walking distance, sitting tolerance, and overall activity levels with less or no pain.
All the interventions and goals will focus on pain management and maximal recovery of the healing structures (muscles, ligaments, bones).
Self-help care for back and neck pain:
- Use of heat and cold
- Use of TENS (transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation)
- Gravitational traction
- How to improve muscular control in the rest of the body
- How to use stabilizing muscles for optimum spine protection
- The importance of postural positions to strengthen postural muscles
Step 3
Sharing our strength.
The ultimate goal of our Proactive Spine Care Plan is to equip patients and their caregivers with the skills to self-manage the problem. Throughout the rehabilitation, we place priority on sharing our expertiseāwhat weāre doing and why weāre doing it. At the end of the program, the patient will understand how to:
- Relieve pain
- Unload and protect the spine
- Perform everyday activities safely
- Maintain strength and balance
- Live more confidently