Rehabilitation Medicine and Therapy Services
UAB Rehabilitation Medicine and Therapy Services is part of UAB Spain Rehabilitation Center, one of the leading providers of comprehensive physical medicine and rehabilitation in the southeast. We treat our patients with a multi-specialty approach that combines inpatient and outpatient rehab and nursing care with dietary, respiratory, and social services.
Outpatient Clinics and Programs
- Amputee Clinic
- Arthritis
- Audiology
- Balance and vestibular training
- Brain Injury Clinic
- Burns
- Cancer Clinic
- Congenital deformity
- Cardiac Clinic
- Cardio-Pulmonary Rehabilitation Program
- Constraint-Induced Therapy (CI Therapy)/Taub Therapy Clinic
- Driver rehabilitation
- Electromyography (EMG) Clinic
- General/Orthopaedic Clinic
- Locomotor training
- Psychology (Neuropsychology and Rehabilitative Psychology)
- Occupational Health (The Workplace)
- Occupational Therapy
- Orthotics and Prosthetics Clinic
- Pain Clinic
- Physical Therapy
- Pressure Injury Clinic
- Spain Rehabilitation pool
- Spasticity Clinic
- Speech Therapy
- Spinal Cord Clinic
- Stroke Clinic
- Transverse Myelitis Clinic
- Urology Clinic
- Wheelchair seating and positioning
- Women’s Health Clinic (for women with disabilities)
Inpatient Services
- Amputation
s - Arthritis
- Brain injury
- Burns
- Stroke
- Congenital deformity
- Hip fractures
- Major multiple trauma
- Neurological disorders (including transverse myelitis, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease, polyneuropathy, Guillain-Barre syndrome, and others)
- Orthopaedic conditions
- Post-surgical and reconstructive treatment of pressure injuries
- Psychology (neuropsychology and rehabilitative psychology)
- Spinal cord injury
Why UAB
Spain Rehabilitation Center (SRC) has treated more than 450,000 patients since opening in 1964. Our care team includes specialists from many areas of UAB Medicine, and they use their unique skills and expertise to evaluate and treat each patient. These patient care teams include physiatrists (doctors who specialized in rehabilitation medicine), nurses, nurse practitioners, physical therapists, occupational therapists, speech/language pathologists, psychologists, social workers, rehabilitation professionals, and other health care providers as needed. Our clinicians have the expertise and compassion necessary to develop comprehensive care plans to help patients overcome difficulties and pursue their goals.
SRC’s Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) Model System of Care has had continuous funding since 1972, our National SCI Statistical Center has been funded since 1985, and the Traumatic Brain Injury Model System of Care since 1998. The Samuel Stover, MD, Assistive Technology Laboratory was established in 2008 with major funding from the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation. The lab allows spinal cord injury patients to use computer-based equipment to help them deal with disabilities. In 2010, SRC developed its first neuroregenerative science research program, which explores the possibilities of regrowing or repairing nerve tissue, cells, and other bodily building blocks to restore lost function to the brain and spinal cord.
VIDEOS
Professional Insights into Managing Pregnancy after Spinal Cord Injury
Traumatic Brain Injury
When Cade Weems suffered a traumatic brain injury in a catastrophic ATV accident, the first goal was to save his life. The staff at UAB Hospital succeeded in that goal. Doctors, nurses and speech and occupational therapists at UAB's Spain Rehabilitation Center worked to help give Cade back the life he once knew. Through a steady course of therapy, Cade relearned things that most people take for granted, like walking, talking and eating. Watch's Cade's miraculous story here.
Stroke Recovery
47-year-old Angela Heinkel was the picture of perfect health, a busy and active mother of 11 children who went running every day. So it was a shock when she suffered a stroke after finishing one of her regular runs. Thankfully, Angela survived and began the road to recovery, which included relearning how to walk and talk. Angela's dedication to her rehab, with the help of the specialists at Spain Rehabilitation Center, has made simple daily tasks like speaking and eating a reality again.


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