Brain injuries can change your life, and when they do, we are here to help. Northwestern Medicine Marianjoy Rehabilitation Hospital provides highly specialized inpatient and outpatient neurorehabilitation services to put you on a path to recovery. These leading-edge services include comprehensive and individualized treatment plans that focus on you and your specific needs and goals.

Our Care and Services

The Northwestern Medicine Brain Injury Rehabilitation Program at Marianjoy Rehabilitation Hospital treats inpatients with brain injuries due to trauma, cerebral hemorrhage, infection, tumors, oxygen deprivation and other causes. After a complete assessment, we will work with you to set your goals and design a comprehensive, individualized treatment plan to help you reach them.

Your inpatient therapy plan is designed to help you manage the physical, emotional and behavioral changes you may be experiencing. In addition to physical, occupational and speech therapy, your team will help you address issues related to:

• Pain management
• Spasticity 
• Pressure sores
• Bowel and bladder
• Mood, depression or anxiety 
• Bone health
• Sexual functioning
• Orthotics and bracing
• Wheelchair seating and positioning 

Marianjoy Rehabilitation Hospital also provides emotional support and counseling for you and your family, as well as education regarding your condition and resources for post-discharge.

Our support for you does not end once your inpatient rehabilitation program is complete. Outpatient and day rehabilitation programs, available at our Wheaton location, maintain the same high standards of exceptional care that guide our inpatient programs.

At Northwestern Medicine Marianjoy Rehabilitation Hospital, we believe that experience matters, especially when it comes to specializing in neuromuscular rehabilitation. By combining state-of-the-art technology with world-class physicians and therapists, we are here to help you improve your functional, physical and emotional well-being. We’re fully equipped to care for patients who require rehabilitation due to a wide variety of conditions.

Our Care and Services

We tailor inpatient treatment plans to help manage the physical, emotional and behavioral changes you experience. Depending on your abilities and goals, we provide a comprehensive approach for learning techniques to:

• Increase your strength, awareness, function and mobility while reducing any physical limitations and pain
• Restore and maximize your performance of daily living activities, such as walking, stair climbing, bathing and toileting
• Adjust to your abilities
• Cultivate lifestyle behaviors that promote your well-being

Therapy sessions are intended to maximize your recovery. They typically take place for at least three hours a day, at least five days per week.

We also provide emotional support and counseling for you and your family, as well as education about your condition and resources for post-discharge.

Our support for you does not end once your inpatient rehabilitation program is complete. Outpatient and day rehabilitation programs, available at our Wheaton location, maintain the same high standards of exceptional care that guide our inpatient programs.

We also have unique and advanced outpatient clinic offerings for patients with Parkinson’s disease, including Lee Silverman Voice Treatment (LSVT) BIG® for movement therapy, LSVT LOUD® for voice volume therapy, and SPEAK OUT!

Recovering from an injury or surgery takes time. Northwestern Medicine Marianjoy Rehabilitation Hospital can help you resume or achieve an active and productive lifestyle that enriches your life.

Our Care and Services

Our inpatient program specializes in treating people who need rehabilitation due to a variety of conditions and diagnoses, including:

• Joint replacement
• Amputation
• Arthritis and arthritic-related conditions
• Diseases that affect bones and muscles
• Orthopaedic trauma, such as a fracture, sports injury or other multi-trauma
• Acute and chronic pain 
• Patients with multiple comorbidities

The teams at Marianjoy Rehabilitation Hospital are committed to helping you recover and build your life again while also providing education and resources and enhancing your wellbeing. We will help you:

• Increase your strength, awareness, function and mobility while reducing any physical limitations and pain
• Incorporate practices to improve your body image
• Commit to active lifestyle goals
• Take a multidisciplinary approach to pain management
• Address your wheelchair seating and positioning needs 
• Create innovative solutions for returning to home and community environments
• Initiate the prosthetics and orthotics fitting process

Our support for you does not end once your inpatient rehabilitation program is complete. Outpatient and day rehabilitation programs, available at our Wheaton location, maintain the same high standards of exceptional care that guide our inpatient programs.

Navigating rehabilitation for a child can sometimes feel overwhelming. At Northwestern Medicine Marianjoy Rehabilitation Hospital, our compassionate, mutidisiplinary care team is with you and your child every step of the way, offering inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation programs.

Our Care and Services

Our program treats a wide range of conditions, such as:

• Stroke
• Non-traumatic and traumatic brain injury
• Cerebral palsy
• Non-traumatic spinal cord dysfunction
• Orthopaedic conditions
• Pulmonary conditions
• Congenital conditions
• Traumatic spinal cord injury
• Developmental disability

After an assessment, we will work with you and your child to set goals and design a personalized treatment plan to help your child reach them. Therapy sessions are intended to maximize their recovery. Children typically receive up to 15 hours of therapy per week with the daily schedule being dependent on their needs.

Our support for you and your child does not end once inpatient rehabilitation program is complete. Outpatient and day rehabilitation programs, available at our Wheaton location, maintain the same high standards of exceptional care that guide our inpatient programs.

Marianjoy’s inpatient Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation Program provides specialized care to both adults and children in a supportive, compassionate environment. Physicians work closely with a multidisciplinary team to create comprehensive, individualized treatment plans that focus on your specific needs and goals, helping you work toward regaining lost function, mobility and independence.

Our Care and Services

The Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation Program provides exceptional, compassionate and customized treatment plans to you and your support system.

The program is fully equipped to care for those who need rehabilitation due to a spinal cord injury, including:

• Traumatic spinal cord injuries, such as those from car accidents or falls
• Nontraumatic spinal cord injury, as can occur with infections, compressive myelopathy, spinal stenosis, spinal tumors or epidural hematomas

Depending on your abilities and goals, Northwestern Medicine Marianjoy Rehabilitation Hospital also provides a comprehensive approach for learning techniques to:

• Increase strength, function and mobility while reducing any physical limitations and pain
• Restore and maximize the potential of performing daily living activities
• Use compensatory strategies for mobility
• Cultivate lifestyle behaviors that promote wellness

We also provide emotional support and counseling for you and your family, as well as education about your condition and resources for post-discharge.

Our support for you does not end once your inpatient rehabilitation program is complete. Outpatient and day rehabilitation programs, available at our Wheaton location, maintain the same high standards of exceptional care that guide our inpatient programs. Patients will be followed by their spinal cord injury physician, who will continue to guide you through your rehabilitation journey.

For more than five decades, the Northwestern Medicine Marianjoy Stroke Rehabilitation Program has provided unparalleled care to stroke patients of all ages. Our highly trained experts, leading-edge technology, and specialty programs allow us to deliver care so advanced that it has earned our inpatient program a Disease-Specific Care Certification in Stroke Rehabilitation from the Joint Commission, representing Marianjoy’s commitment to excellence in providing services for people who have had a stroke.

Our Care and Services

Regardless of the severity of the stroke, our goal is the same: To return you to your life and your communities. We make customized inpatient treatment plans to manage the physical, emotional and behavioral changes you may experience as a result of the stroke. Therapy sessions are intended to maximize recovery. They typically take place for at least three hours a day, at least five days per week.

With your abilities and goals in mind, we also provide a comprehensive approach for you to learn techniques and practices that:

• Increase your strength, function and mobility
• Reduce your physical limitations and pain
• Restore and maximize the potential of performing everyday activities
• Form lifestyle behaviors that promote your well-being

We also provide emotional support, counseling and education regarding the condition as well as resources for post-discharge.

Our support for you does not end once your inpatient rehabilitation program is complete. Outpatient and day rehabilitation programs, available at our Wheaton location, maintain the same high standards of exceptional care that guide our inpatient programs.