PAMF Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation

Recovering from a spinal cord injury or spinal surgery can be a difficult process. Rehabilitation specialists at Palo Alto Medical Foundation use a variety of therapies to help you regain strength and physical function.

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Excellence in Rehabilitation

When you’re recovering from a spinal cord injury, you want a team of specially trained doctors, therapists and nurses at your side to help you succeed. The Palo Alto Medical Foundation Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Department offers many types of minimally and non-invasive treatments to restore function and help you regain as much independence as possible.

At PAMF, physical medicine and rehabilitation physicians, also known as physiatrists, care for people with acute and chronic pain, and people who have experienced catastrophic events resulting in paraplegia, quadriplegia or traumatic brain injury.

Among the conditions we treat are:

Lower back and neck pain
Repetitive strain injuries
Stroke
Brain and spinal cord injury

We use many types of treatment to restore function, including:

Pain control measures to help people participate more fully in the rehabilitation program
Spinal cord stimulation
Therapeutic injections to control pain and inflammation
Therapeutic exercise to regain flexibility, strength and endurance

Clinical Perspectives

What to Expect During Acute Rehabilitation

During your stay at one of Sutter’s acute rehabilitation centers, you’ll work with a team of specialists to gain independence in daily living activities such as dressing, bathing, preparing and eating meals, and moving around with or without adaptive equipment.