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 Thinking of Surgery for Your Orthopedic Spine Patients? Prehab before you Preauth

   Chances are you’re thinking of surgery for some of your spine injury patients right now. Sometimes surgery seems like the only option. We’d like to offer you another choice – consider a prehabilitation program. What’s prehabilitation, you say? See below!

 Definitions:

1. Prehabilitation: (prehab) a program of exercises done pre-surgically to improve surgical outcomes.

 2. The Southern Nevada Prehab Program:

A multidisciplinary approach to prehabilitation that:

• helps you determine the need for spinal surgery
• prepares your patients for surgery
• promotes better surgical outcomes

 That’s right – the SNFRP now offers prehabilitation! This exciting approach to enhancing patient outcomes integrates expertise from the areas of medicine, physical therapy and behavioral health to prepare your patients for the best possible outcomes related to orthopedic spine injuries. We can help you decide about surgery, or we prehab the patients you’ve already referred for surgery.  

 Who should use the Southern Nevada Prehab Program?

• Potential surgical candidates for orthopedic spine  
• Patients for whom you would like to enhance surgical outcomes by implementing physical conditioning, education, and motivation for aftercare compliance

 What do you look for with these patients?

• Our treatment team includes a medical provider, physical therapist, and psychologist/behavioral health specialist
• Each provider evaluates for predictors within his/her specialty that are related to poor surgical outcomes
• There are many predictors of surgical outcomes. A few include: level of physical conditioning; diabetes; smoking; history of compliance with recommendations; substance abuse; anxiety related to surgery, pain, or re-injury; etc.

 What happens after the evaluation?

• Following the initial evaluation, the team meets to build an individualized prehabilitation plan for your patient
• Typically, the patient’s program will consist of 5 to 10 half-days of physical training, education and/or behavioral intervention

 How do I refer to the Southern Nevada Prehab Program?

• It’s as easy as referring to the SNFRP!
• We are located in the same facility at 1001 Shadow Lane, Las Vegas, NV.
• Just contact Melinda Long, Operations Manager, at 702-774-2369 or fax her at (866) 286-9302

Spring Mountain Rehab is the Official Rehab provider for Southern Nevada Functional Restoration Program (SNFRP).  SNFRP is a multi-disciplinary chronic pain program in a private-public partnership with UNLV.

Please call us with any specific questions that you have.

For More Information Contact:

Spring Mountain Rehab
2701 N. Tenaya Way, #290 Las Vegas, Nevada 89128
Tel: 702-869-4401
FAX: 702-869-9904
Internet: Admin@SpringMountainRehab.Com

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Last modified: 11/01/09