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Rehabilitation is Easier at Friendship Manor

Information from Friendship Manor

Rehabilitation is extremely important after having surgery to help ensure proper healing and a successful return to your daily activities. Prior to having elective surgery, you may be wondering how you’ll find transportation to therapy if you don’t drive, where you will have rehab and how you will navigate insurance issues.

Friendship Manor can ease all of your concerns with outpatient therapy, available to the entire community, not just residents of the Manor. And getting to therapy is easy with a little help from the Manor’s shuttle. Residents in the Rock Island metro area receive free door-to-door shuttle service from home to the Manor to help you keep your therapy appointment, even if you are unable to drive.

You can choose any therapy provider you wish, your doctor doesn’t decide for you. The choice is yours and Friendship Manor is licensed to provide physical, speech and occupational rehab services to outpatients with a physician’s order for therapy.

Friendship Manor has some very unique equipment to help you through the healing and strength building process. The Alter-G® Anti-Gravity Treadmill® unweights patients during standing and walking to allow them to rehabilitate with less pain and decreased risk of further injury. The feelings of being weightless and with less pain help keep patients engaged and motivated during rehab.

Another high-tech tool in the Manor’s therapy department is the Biodex Balance System™. Biodex is used to screen patients for fall risk and to help determine if therapy services are needed to improve balance. When using Biodex during therapy, patients stand on a responsive platform while
viewing the interactive screen that challenges and measures balance skills.

It can be a challenge to navigate the insurance process, but Friendship Manor can bill most insurance carriers for therapy services and can also help request a physician’s order if further evaluation is required. Having an advocate on your side gives you more time to focus on therapy and wellness.

Free fall screenings and tours of Friendship Manor’s therapy department are available by appointment. Please call (309) 786-9334 or email mark.leverenz@friendshipmanor.org to request an appointment or to discuss therapy related concerns.