Sports Medicine "coaches" work
your physician’s game plan for best possible function

Life is full of unpleasant tasks. But, put some fun into the drudgery. Make everything you do a challenge, and always try to win. Never, ever give up!"
the late Diane Geppi-Aikens, Loyola lacrosse coach
-- Profiled in Lucky Every Day

This patient works on fine motor skills following joint replacement in her thumb

You hadn’t planned on that back surgery…or the fall on the ice and a broken ankle…or developing Carpal Tunnel Syndrome…or the stroke that’s compromised the right side of your body. Now, you find yourself in Bay Regional Medical Center’s Rehabilitation Services program. A variety of therapeutic experts will work together, following your physician’s "game plan". They will provide therapies that can restore function, mobility, range-of-motion, relieve pain, and get you as close as possible to the life you led before your surgery, injury or disability.

Rehabilitative services can include physical therapy, occupational therapy, and/or speech-language pathology. They work as a team in using therapies that demand focus, concentration, repetition, and determination. They will motivate you to exceed what you achieved in your last therapy session. They will challenge you to set goals, and push beyond your own expectations. They know therapy is hard work. It can be painful, tedious, and tax your patience.

But, think of yourself as their "star" player. At some point, you will achieve the major goals of your physician’s "game plan." Your Rehab Services team is preparing you to re-enter your most important game – Your Life, with sufficient strength, mobility and function to live, work and play as independently as possible. What lies ahead is to keep up the therapies and exercises, perhaps in outpatient rehab, but certainly in daily living and community life. The crucial goal your rehab team hopes you set for yourself is to, "Never, ever give up!"

Inpatient medical rehabilitation is provided at Bay Regional Medical Center’s main campus at 1900 Columbus Ave., and at BRMC’s West Campus, 3520 E. Midland Road.

Outpatient rehabilitation is provided at BRMC’s West Campus, the Medical Mall in Essexville, and Northern Bay Health Care in Pinconning. Outpatient rehab and sports medicine services require a physician prescription.

Bay Regional’s Rehabilitative Services is accredited by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health Care Organizations (JCAHO). The inpatient Medical Rehabilitation Program is accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF).

For more information, call (989) 667-6600 or (800) 929-0660.