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Message: [QUOTE="Rocktheworld, post: 3072116, member: 5037"] Yes [USER=5787]@Hey Adrien![/USER] if you can, depending on how things go over the next few days, I would try to get dad in [B]acute[/B] rehab. If a doctor or case manager just says “rehab”, ask them to specify “acute rehab” or “skilled nursing facility”. Those two terms are often —sometimes ingenuously, but not always— used interchangeably; but the quality, frequency, and intensity of the therapy will be worlds better in acute rehab. With skilled nursing, “epidemic” doesn’t do justic the level of shady therapy practices that go on. The nursing care is often less attentive. And further, the therapy minutes will be lower, and the frequency will be diminished. [USER=7016]@Kathy[/USER] said that the first 6-8 weeks of therapy is crucial. We don’t know where your dad is right now, and won’t really know for a couple days. However impaired he is now, it can’t hurt to have him get as intense of therapy as possible to capitalize on a general stroke phenomenon called “spontaneous recovery”. This is a period of 6-18 months starting from the day after the stroke where, even without therapy, the brain will in a sense “re-wire” itself and there will be some appreciable recovery of function. The intense therapy will make the most dramatic gains. I would appeal for acute rehab over home health if you can, if the care team is kind of on the fence on home vs rehab. If, for example, your dad is just a minimal assist or something (these terms will make sense as you interact with the therapies) and they say he could potentially go straight home, I would still go the rehab route so they can get him as close to modified independent as possible. Then go outpatient to clean up whatever is left to work on. I would not do home health. Vast majority of home health therapy is a joke from what I’ve been told [/QUOTE]

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