Rehabilitation

Northern Light Sebasticook Valley Hospital Rehabilitation Services strives to promote individual wellness and independence by helping you meet your goals and needs as efficiently as possible.

We treat patients of all ages and are the practitioners of choice for the conservative treatment of pain, physical dysfunction, and many other factors affecting quality of life. 

In addition, our team specializes and is certified in orthopedics, lymphedema therapy (chronic swelling), back pain, manual therapy, positional vertigo, TMJ, neurologic treatment for Parkinson's disease, and hand therapy.

  • Stay in charge and involved in your healthcare and treatment

  • Return to work and to daily routines or sports activities after an injury

  • Regain independence after an illness or injury

  • Improve heart health and help prevent or reduce future cardiac problems

  • Maximize communication and/or swallowing, resulting from stroke, head injury, neurological disease, or voice injury

  • Learn exercise programs for improved flexibility and movement

  • Teach you how to use adaptive equipment (like crutches, walkers, canes, wheelchairs, splints, and braces)

  • Prevent and reduce injuries, reduce pain, and fatigue

  • Help you avoid invasive procedures

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We offer a program for patients recovering from heart attack, bypass, or heart valve surgery, angioplasty, stenting, congestive heart failure, or stable angina (chest pain). This program helps to improve overall function and quality of life, compliance with medical regimen, and helps patients adhere to positive lifestyle change while returning to normal life activities. 

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  • Post-surgical intervention of shoulder, elbow, and hand

  • Tendon and musculoskeletal conditions; tendonitis, repairs

  • Sensory disturbances that involve numbness/tingling of the hand and fingers

  • Shoulder, elbow, and hand pain involving joint conditions; arthritis

  • Custom fabrication and application of orthotics for the hand, wrist, and elbow

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  • Treatment for pain and dysfunction in the low back, neck, shoulder, knee, hip, foot and ankle

  • Lymphedema therapy
  • Parkinson's disease treatment 

  • Temporomandibular joint (TMJ) disorder

  • Vestibular (balance)

  • Gait disorders

  • Wheelchair clinic

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  • Treatment for swallowing, cognition, and communication disorders

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