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Arthritis

Rhode Island Rehabilitation Center offers a full range of treatment modalities for arthritis sufferers designed to return motion and function to affected joints and to reduce pain. Key ingredients of a treatment program for a client with arthritis include electric stimulation, massage, paraffin wax treatments, and fluidotherapy. Often when a patient has inflammation of the joints, the surrounding muscles, ligaments and tendons become a secondary source of pain. Warm water therapy and Burdenko aquatic therapy are important treatment modalities for many arthritic conditions. The warm water relaxes muscle groups connected to inflamed joints while the bouyancy of the water allows patients to regain freedom of motion while literally taking the weight off their joints.

Exercise is an important part of treatment plans for clients with arthritis. Typically as arthritis progresses, clients will reduce their level of activity leading to an overall loss of muscle tone and flexibility. Proprioception therapy, strengthening, stretching and endurance training are important parts of the recovery process for clients with arthritis.

RI Rehab has a full range of treatment designed to re-mobilize patients who have suffered impairment of their mobility. Functional mobility training which may include instruction in the use of walkers, canes, or crutches may be a necessary part of rehabilitation to re-educate a body that has been inactive for prolonged periods.