The CRM of Emory Hospitals offers an outpatient rehabilitation program for patients who live at home and have a disability requiring participation in one or more skilled rehabilitation therapies. Therapy is available during regular business hours Monday through Friday. The outpatient rehabilitation program, which is CARF accredited, offers two tracks of therapy as well as several specialty services:

Intensive Track
Patients who require two or more skilled therapies and need a coordinated, case managed approach to outpatient rehabilitation are appropriate candidates. With this intensive track, patients are involved in skilled therapy for a minimum of three hours per day, three days per week. Trans-disciplinary goals address the skills necessary for maximum community re-integration and resumption of pre-morbid roles and lifestyle.

Traditional Track
Patients who require a single therapy, patients who need less than three hours of skilled therapy, three days per week, and those who cannot tolerate at least three hours of therapy, three days per week are appropriate referrals. In general, therapy focuses on relieving pain and/or restoring function in the patient's home and community.

The following specialty clinics and services are available:

Dizziness & Balance Services
Patients who have dizziness, vertigo, visual-vestibular problems or imbalance are seen by a specially trained, licensed physical therapist who uses state-of-the-art equipment and techniques to evaluate and treat their imbalance, resulting in improved ability to walk and a lower risk of falling.

Driver Rehabilitation Services
Patients whose ability to safely operate a motor vehicle is impaired due to a medical condition are evaluated by an occupational therapist who has received special training and licensure as a handicapped driver instructor. The evaluation and any subsequent training may involve simulation activities in the clinic as well as behind-the-wheel experience using a car with adaptive equipment.

Seating & Mobility Services
A licensed physical therapist, who has special training and experience in the area of wheelchair seating and positioning, evaluates patients with a wide variety of diagnoses. He/she then works with the patient, his/her physician, a vender and other external sources to identify a seating system which is cost-effective and provides the patient with maximum functional ability.

Intensive Treatment Program for Aphasia
An innovative and unique intense program for patients who have communication problems due to aphasia. - Patients participate in a combination of individual and group treatment sessions for approximately three hours per day, five days per week.

Vocational Rehabilitation Services
A specially trained and certified vocational rehabilitation specialist works with patients toward the goal of successful return to work. Specific activities may include job exploration, vocational assessment, jobsite assessment, job development and placement.

Industrial Rehabilitation Services
A specially trained and licensed physical or occupational therapist works with the patient and their employer to identify specific job demands, pre-employment level of functioning, ergonomic evaluation and training, and functional capacity evaluations.

AT Lab
In collaboration with the Georgia Institute of Technology, Center for Rehabilitation Technology, an assistive technology lab is now available at the CRM. Patients with many different types of disabilities may be evaluated for and trained in the use of various pieces of assistive technology (adaptive equipment) designed to help them function more independently. The evaluation and training is provided by a team of rehabilitation professionals. In addition, the team goes to a patient's job or home to identify equipment which will help people function more independently in those settings.

Clinics
The outpatient rehabilitation program therapists participate with The Emory Clinic specialists in providing care to patients being seen in the specific clinics:

Aquatics - Patients with arthritic pain or other orthopedic conditions enjoy exercising in the CRM's heated swimming pool under the direction of a certified therapeutic recreation specialist. Aquatics sessions are available in a group or individual setting on a private pay basis.

To make an appointment for any of the Emory CRM outpatient rehabilitation programs or services, please call 404-712-5527.

An original, written prescription from a physician licensed to practice medicine in the state of Georgia is required for evaluation or treatment as an outpatient.