Our outpatient program treats people of all ages and abilities. We address a wide range of problems, from ankle sprains to complex stroke.
Outpatient Program
About Our Program
Our outpatient program treats people of all ages and abilities. We address a wide range of problems, from ankle sprains to complex stroke.
We also provide specialized therapy in the following areas: • Aquatics
Our outpatient program is unique. While many providers offer basic rehabilitation, few have physician-led, expert clinical teams who can work with you throughout your care. Our physicians and therapists offer: • One-on-one treatment sessions • Multidisciplinary team approach • Highly trained staff with advanced certifications Outpatients have access to our experts, unique facilities, equipment and all features of Shirley Ryan AbilityLab. We work in collaboration with a variety of specialists in: • Assistive technology • Motion analysis
Each patient’s treatment plan is unique and prescribed by expert clinicians. Our physiatrists and therapists collaborate on treatment plans and integrate evidence- based care in real time for each patient. Patients are also very involved in their care plan.
• Cancer • Casting • Cognitive training • Exoskeleton walking • Lokomat ® and intensive gait training • Lymphedema • Intensive pediatric summer camps • Sports medicine • Neurologic • Pain management • Parkinson’s disease and movement disorders • Pediatrics • Pulmonary • Vestibular • Women’s health/pelvic health
EVIDENCE-BASED CARE WITH RESEARCH Our team of experts and state- of-the-art technology allow for more efficient and advanced care. Through real-time translation of clinical research, treatments are always evolving based on the patient’s individual needs and the most current data.
• Prosthetics and orthotics • Wheelchair and seating
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Our Model of Care Our team approach ensures you get exactly the therapies you need, when you need them. Our goal is to increase your activity level each day, restoring your function and independence.
SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGISTS Our speech language pathologists (SLPs) are licensed, certified and among the most experienced in the field of aphasia treatment. SLPs will assess your thinking processes and ability to communicate, and then develop a treatment plan that focuses on understanding and remembering information, talking/ communicating and swallowing. Although each patient’s treatment plan is unique, outpatient rehabilitation typically includes a minimum of 1-2 hours of therapy, 1-2 times a week, with doctors and therapists in the specialty program aligning most closely with the source of your injury or condition. Frequency, intensity and duration of daily activity are determined by your care team and change as you progress. We encourage family participation to maximize long-term outcomes.
PHYSICAL THERAPISTS Our physical therapists (PTs) are licensed, certified and many have advanced degrees, with specialized concentrations in neurology, geriatric, orthopedic, pediatric and women’s health. Because of their specialties, therapists are able to provide expert care and treatment that is specific to your condition and needs. PTs will assess your abilities and develop an individualized treatment plan focused on a variety of activities to help with balance, mobility, strength, endurance and range of motion. OCCUPATIONAL THERAPISTS Our occupational therapists (OTs) are licensed, certified and many have advanced degrees. They work alongside physicians, and physical therapists to ensure that they are providing the best treatment for you. OTs will assess your abilities and develop a treatment plan tailored to your daily activities and routine, as well as components of these activities such as arm strength and coordination, thinking skills and safety awareness.
You’ll work one on one with experienced professionals, many with additional certification in specialties such as pain management, orthopedics, sports medicine, arthritis care, pediatrics, geriatrics and neurology. BOARD-CERTIFIED PHYSIATRISTS Physiatrists have advanced training and expertise in physical medicine and rehabilitation (PM&R). They treat patients with physical and neurological impairments due to injury, illness or medical condition. Our doctors specialize in non-surgical treatment options, giving you the best chance to have the best outcome. SPECIAL SERVICES OFFERED: • Acupuncture • EMG and imaging • Evaluation and management • Injections, such as Botox ® and spinal injections for pain • Performing arts medicine • Women’s health
OUR OUTPATIENT MODEL Our experts work closely with you and collaborate with your referring physician to determine
the best treatment plan for your rehabilitation needs. Depending on your diagnosis, you may only be treated by our expert therapists.
OUR PHYSIATRISTS • Advanced training & expertise in PM&R • Specialize in non- surgical treatment options • Provide whole-body comprehensive care
OUR THERAPISTS • Licensed & certified
• One-on-one
sessions tailored to your needs
with specialized concentrations
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• Provide an active therapy approach focusing on patient education and self- treatment
communication with referring physician
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Sports & Spine Medicine
If you have soft-tissue injuries, from a sore back to an injured knee, you can benefit from care in Musculoskeletal Medicine.
WOMEN’S HEALTH REHABILITATION Our Women’s Health program delivers comprehensive evaluation and care to women with pregnancy-related musculoskeletal issues, pelvic floor pain or dysfunction and osteoporosis. Our clinical team is specially trained to evaluate and treat these problems. PERFORMING ARTS MEDICINE We offer comprehensive performance- oriented medical evaluation and treatment of musculoskeletal conditions experienced by instrumentalists, singers, dancers and actors of all performance
SPORTS MEDICINE Our approach includes consistent communication with our patients’ sports teams, coaches and/or personal trainers to ensure your individual needs are addressed as you pursue ongoing performance improvement. Our physiatrists treat a number of medical conditions including: ankle sprains, hip injuries, knee pain, plantar fasciitis, rotator cuff injuries, stress fractures and tennis elbow. Women’s Sports Medicine Women are at higher risk for specific injuries around the hips, pelvis, knees and ankles when compared to men. Our research and clinical care directly addresses gender-specific injury prevention and rehabilitation programs to treat the female athlete.
Adaptive Sports Medicine Our physicians within the Adaptive Sports Medicine Program are dual board- certified in Sports Medicine and Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, making them uniquely qualified to take care of athletes ranging from the “weekend warrior” to our Paralympic elite athlete. SPINE MEDICINE Our physiatrists provide expert diagnosis and conservative treatment of disorders causing neck, upper back and lower back pain. We focus on our patients’ functional goals in order to improve their quality of life.
levels. We evaluate the performer’s technique, physical conditioning,
repertoire, instrument and emotional state in relation to the current medical problem.
The average number of treatment sessions in our
program is 5.7 (versus other Chicagoland centers at 14 sessions). We understand that you’re busy and want to get better faster. With our one-on- one, therapist-to-patient care, we offer the fastest path to healing.
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Neurological Medicine With a comprehensive team of clinicians, we go beyond medication and surgery with specialized treatment including therapy, technology and scientific advances to dramatically improve abilities. Our experts specialize in:
CANCER & LYMPHEDEMA Cancer patients often develop
return to the highest level of function and independence as possible. Our experts will work with you to develop an individualized treatment plan that’s right for you. PARKINSON’S DISEASE & MOVEMENT DISORDERS (PDMD) Our PDMD experts team with you to enhance your abilities and well-being across all stages of the disease. We provide a holistic and science-driven approach to providing care and will work together to create a customized plan to address your needs for both motor and non-motor symptoms. We offer a variety of services including clinical care, research, education and community outreach, as well as customized early-stage evaluations, individualized rehabilitation therapy services, fitness center classes, educational sessions and a broad range of research opportunities.
neurological impairments caused by the cancer itself, or by aggressive treatments. We are one of the few rehabilitation hospitals to offer an integrated approach to rehabilitation for adults and children battling cancer. Our team of experts deploy the latest therapies and create customized care plans for patients and their families to help them maximize what is most important in their lives. CONCUSSION CLINIC Concussion symptoms may appear right away, while others may go unnoticed for hours or days after the injury. You will be evaluated by one of our Brain Injury Certified Physicians. Based on your symptoms, you may have follow up appointments and/or be referred to other concussion specialists on our team including physical, occupational and speech therapists. Our concussion experts will help you get back to work, school, or other activities that are important to you. GENERAL NEUROLOGICAL CONDITIONS The neurological conditions we treat include a wide variety of movement, memory, neuromuscular and nerve disorders. We go beyond medication and surgery with specialized treatment including therapy, technology and scientific advances to dramatically improve your abilities and help you
SPECIALTY SERVICES In addition to the traditional means of therapy, we offer a variety of specialized services for our outpatients. • Advanced orthotics training • Casting & splinting • Durable Medical Equipment clinic • Ergonomic training • Exoskeleton gait training and Lokomat ® training • Facial nerve rehabilitation • McNeil Dysphagia treatment • Speak Out program • Swallow Studies —- functional electrical stimulation
PULMONARY REHABILITATION Our program aims to enable you to
complete day-to-day activities with greater ease and ability, increase your endurance and overall activity level, and independently manage your condition. It is an 8-week program that involves two treatment sessions each week, aimed at incrementally increasing your function through exercise and education. Our team of experts will work with you to create a customized plan and individual goals to address your treatment needs.
• Vision training • Voice therapy
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Research Shirley Ryan AbilityLab is the largest physical rehabilitation research center in the world. Currently, there are more than 200 research projects underway, and we hold eight federal research designations from the National Institutes of Health. That means you’ll have early access to innovative therapies and groundbreaking technologies, including the latest prosthetics, orthotics and assistive devices. You may even have an opportunity to be involved in a trial of new treatments under development.
PATIENT STEM CELL BANK FOR PRECISION NEUROTRAUMA RESEARCH Despite the same rehabilitation treatment, some patients with SCI or TBI make life-altering functional gains while others make only limited progress. The most difficult factor that influences a patient’s outcome, is his/her genetic differences. To address this challenge, we have developed a one-of-kind, patient-specific neurotrauma paradigm. To validate this approach, patient-specific nerve cells are generated from people who have suffered different types of neurotrauma (TBI, SCI and peripheral nerve) with carefully documented clinical outcomes. These
them. With our biomarker technology we are currently investigating how different types of walking exercise impacts your own joints, whether you are an adolescent with cerebral palsy and have joint pain, or a person with knee osteoarthritis who just wants to play a round of golf. LOW COST PROSTHETIC ARM SYSTEM Losing an arm has profound economic, social and psychological effects. An artificial arm (prosthesis) can help to replace lost function, enabling people to live independently, work and participate in society. Our team has worked to develop an arm system that will provide access to functional, affordable prosthetic devices for individuals in low-income countries and provide a valuable prosthetic option for low-income or uninsured individuals in the United States. OPEN SOURCE BIONIC LEG People with leg amputations need prostheses that provide appropriate power so that they can reengage in previous work and leisure activities. With researchers at the University of Michigan, we are building a prosthetic leg (with an ankle and knee) that is affordable. Not only will this device benefit lower-limb amputees, but the widespread use of this device will also allow for direct comparison of different control approaches, making future research more efficient.
patient-derived cells are then traumatized in the research laboratory and their decline and recovery is quantified to test the theory that patient-specific human stem cell models can predict neurotrauma outcomes. We hope this will lead us to better clinical trial design and the expansion of more personalized neurotrauma medicine.
USING A PERSONALIZED MEDICINE APPROACH
Using a personalized medicine approach, our goal is to evaluate how an individual with osteoarthritis biologically responds to specific exercises so we can develop an individualized rehabilitation program for
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Ashley’s Story: The Comeback
to build strength, she was able to walk consistently. Over the following weeks and months, she continued to reach milestones and goals. In fact, the avid runner was able to run for the first time just 100 days following the accident. Then, in fall 2018, following nerve transfer surgery to address her foot drop, Ashley began outpatient physical therapy at Shirley Ryan AbilityLab. “After my first physical therapy appointment, I left with the biggest smile on my face,” said Ashley. “I was able to walk a lap around the room four weeks earlier than my surgeon predicted.” Ashley continued attending physical therapy sessions twice a week for eight months. At the outset, her goals included the ability to flex her foot, and eventually walk and run without her ankle-foot orthosis (AFO). By August 2019, Ashley was able to remove her AFO brace permanently and graduated from outpatient therapy. She regained about 90 percent of the flexion in her right foot, and was able to hit a 12 mile-per-hour stride while running.
Ashley was a 24-year-old accountant and athlete living an active life in Chicago. On May 29, 2017, everything changed. While traveling back from a Memorial Day weekend getaway in Nashville, Tenn., poor visibility led to a 12-car pileup on the highway. Several vehicles slammed into the one Ashley’s friend was driving. The back of the car collapsed into its back seat, where Ashley was sitting. Ashley sustained serious injuries. Her hip dislocated in two places; she had a fractured pelvis and sustained nerve damage to her right leg, resulting in a foot drop — the inability to lift her foot. “The physical therapists I worked with were great and
Ashley’s comeback journey hasn’t just helped her regain movement. Inspired by the care she received, she decided to go back to school to become a certified nursing assistant (CNA). In December 2019, she earned her license and now plans to become a registered nurse (RN). She enters nursing school shortly. “I'm extremely grateful for how far I’ve come in just under three years,” said Ashley. “This accident changed my life for the better and has allowed me to turn this setback into my biggest comeback.”
extremely creative. They were constantly thinking of new ways to kick-start movement in my foot.
Two weeks after the accident, Ashley was transported by ambulance from an acute-care hospital in Champagne, Ill., to Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, where she would spend two weeks as an inpatient undergoing intensive physical and occupational therapy. Her inpatient stay helped Ashley gain the strength and knowledge she needed to live independently and to navigate in a wheelchair as she continued to recover … but her work was not finished. Seven weeks after the accident, Ashley returned to her job. As Ashley continued Along with Dr. Franz, my physician, they never gave up on me and were some of my biggest cheerleaders.” — Ashley
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Outpatient Locations Shirley Ryan AbilityLab (Flagship)
355 East Erie Street Chicago, IL 60611 312.238.1000 / 312.238.1369 fax Burr Ridge Outpatient & DayRehab Center 7600 South County Line Road Burr Ridge, IL 60527 630.388.6700 / 630.388.6777 fax Glenview Pediatric & DayRehab Center 2591 Compass Road, Suite 100 Glenview, IL 60026
847.510.5620 / 847.412.6440 fax Northbrook Outpatient Center 900 Skokie Boulevard Northbrook, IL 60062 847.272.7426 / 847.412.6440 fax
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