Rehabilitation Services

The UConn Health Center Department of Rehabilitation and Sports Medicine provides preventive, rehabilitative, and performance enhancing programs and services that maximize functionality and promote well being in patients of all ages and abilities. Rehabilitation Medicine supports the UConn Health Center’s core mission of excellence in patient care, research in support of clinical programs, education, and public service.

The UConn Health Center Rehabilitation Services team consists of licensed physical therapists, registered/licensed occupational therapists, certified hand therapists, speech language pathologists, physical therapy assistants, certified athletic trainers and medical assistants.

We provide the following services and programs:

• Sports medicine assessment and rehabilitation
  • Athletic training services
• Osteoporosis rehabilitation
• Balance rehabilitation and fall prevention
• Low back care rehabilitation
• Hand and upper extremity rehabilitation
• Repetitive work injury rehabilitation
• Temporo-mandibular joint (TMJ) rehabilitation
• Rheumatologic Conditions
  • Arthritis rehabilitation
  • Fibromyalgia rehabilitation
• Speech Services
  • Swallowing function
  • Fiberoptic Endoscopic Evaluation (FEES)
  • Aphasia therapy
  • Cognitive therapy
  • Augmentative communication assessment
  • Dysarthria therapy
  • Electrolarynx training
  • Fluency Training
• Women's health
• Aquatic physical therapy