Stroke Rehab Program

Our nationally-recognized Stroke Rehab Program is located at 155 Borthwick Avenue. This beautiful facility has been designed to create an atmosphere of friendly encouragement and peer support for stroke patients, while promoting practical, real-world recovery skills. For example, patients can create their own therapy in a new, fully equipped, stainless steel kitchen, mastering skills that will transfer back to their homes and help ease that transition with a renewed sense of self-sufficiency.

Another therapeutic activity that takes place outside the facility is shopping, enabling stroke patients to enhance their independence and control over everyday tasks.

These are a few examples of how our medical team’s pioneering research on stroke patient outcomes has resulted in treatment that shatter the norms for functional recovery after stroke. Patients who complete the program are significantly more independent, more mobile and more engaged in meaningful work and social activity. At Portsmouth Regional Hospital, getting back on your feet after a stroke is the norm, not the exception. Our medical team, including Physical Therapists, Occupational Therapists and Speech-Language Therapists, provide coordinated care with access to support groups for both patients and family members.

Our program has been recognized by the American Physical Therapy Association for our research, outcomes and therapy innovations such as BWSS – a neuro-rehabilitation technique in which the patient is suspended over a moving treadmill in a harness system that provides varying amounts of unweighting of the patient's body weight. The goal of BWSS is to improve patients' ambulation, standing balance, and endurance.

Our Stroke Rehab Program encourages people to reach their full potential in a supportive and focused atmosphere.