Posts Tagged ‘rehab’
Lessen Your Risk for Cardiovascular Disease
Marianne Sherman, MA, CVRN-BC is a cardiac rehabilitation clinician for Inova Heart and Vascular Institute at Inova Loudoun and Inova Fairfax Hospitals. She has more than 25 years of experience including unit management, the development of individualized treatment plans for patients with diverse cardiac diagnoses, exercise prescription, and patient education to reduce cardiovascular disease risk. Heart…
Read MoreInova Partners With Tech Company to Improve Physical Therapy Results
Data drives KinometriX sensor Imagine you had knee surgery. Everything went well and you’re back home. Of course, your physical therapist (PT) recommended a therapy treatment plan — which includes exercises at home as well as with your therapist at a physical therapy clinic. In an ideal world, you follow your PT’s directions, and you’re…
Read MoreThanks to Rehab, Neurology Patient Achieves Personal Goal
Chuck Gagnon asks his daughter on her wedding day, may I have this dance? It started small for Chuck Gagnon — a couple of bad days marked by a sort of physical clumsiness combined with trouble thinking straight. “I felt like I had lead feet and my thoughts were a bit confused,” says Chuck, 66,…
Read MoreConcussion’s Effect on Vision: Signs to Watch For
Laura Serine, MS OTR/L ATP is an Occupational Therapist at the Inova Loudoun Hospital Outpatient Specialty Rehabilitation Center and Concussion Clinic. She is trained in vision therapy and often works with patients who demonstrate visual deficits. Understanding Concussion: A Visual Perspective Concussions have become a hot topic – and for good reason. A concussion is…
Read MoreInova Mount Vernon achieves rare perfect score, Covering the Corridor
Following a comprehensive day-long review of the Inova Joint Replacement Center at Inova Mount Vernon Hospital on Wednesday, a prestigious national healthcare accreditation organization awarded the center a rare perfect score for its total hip and total knee replacement programs. Read more.
Read MoreOutpatient rehab services at Inova Mount Vernon help patients restore motor function and achieve independence
Rebuilding Meaningful Lives The award-winning Inova Rehabilitation Center (IRC) is a service that sets Inova Mount Vernon Hospital apart: We are home to one of the DC area’s largest and most experienced rehabilitation teams. The Inova Rehab Center at Inova Mount Vernon offers the community a wide range of outpatient rehabilitation services specially created to…
Read MoreAthletic Trainers: Your Ally in Youth Sports
Sean Burfeind, MS, LAT, ATC, OPA-C, is a residency-trained, board-certified and licensed athletic trainer. He serves as a clinical athletic trainer at Inova Sports Medicine. If you’re a parent to a youth athlete, you’ve probably crossed paths with an athletic trainer. Yet you might still be wondering: What exactly does an athletic trainer do? It’s…
Read MorePatients with spinal cord injuries are walking again with help from Inova Mount Vernon’s ReWalk clinic
First Steps Back The Inova Rehabilitation Center (www.inova.org/IRC) is now offering certain patients with spinal cord injuries the opportunity to learn how to walk again using an innovative new technology. The ReWalk exoskeleton clinic, which began in April at Inova Mount Vernon Hospital, is the first available in Northern Virginia. “Inova is opening the ReWalk…
Read MoreMisdiagnosis: Asthma or Vocal Cord Dysfunction?
Margie M. Comerford, M.Ed., CCC-SLP, is a speech-language pathologist at the Inova Loudoun Hospital Outpatient Rehabilitation Center. When I was a teenager I was diagnosed with exercise-induced asthma, but the symptoms never quite fit. Years later, while being trained as a speech-language pathologist, I learned about vocal cord dysfunction – and a light bulb went…
Read MoreSafe Summer Sports: 8 Ways to Help Your Child Avoid Injuries
Paul Lastova, PT, DSc, is a senior physical therapist at the Outpatient Specialty Rehabilitation Center at Inova Loudoun Hospital. Organized sports are great ways for kids to get regular physical activity, to learn discipline and teamwork and to just have fun. But sports injuries can easily sideline all those benefits. Luckily, many sports injuries are…
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