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Whether you're recovering from an injury or surgery, want to get back into shape, or want to maintain a healthier work place, the CommuniCare Wellness Center at Capital Regional Medical Center is your center for healthy living.
The CommuniCare Wellness Center has all the components for a comprehensive health and fitness program under one roof. You'll find individualized attention, customized treatment programs and specially trained staff -- all in one convenient, easily accessible location.
Our health and fitness professionals include physical, occupational and speech therapists, exercise physiologists, dietitians, a psychologist and physicians. These highly skilled specialists work as a team to provide the highest quality care and most comprehensive approach to healthy living.
The CommuniCare Wellness Center answers patients' health needs in the major areas: rehabilitative services, cardiac wellness, back rehabilitation, fitness and nutrition.
Our physical, occupational and speech therapists work together to provide services designed to assist patients in regaining mobility and obtaining a maximum level of independence after an injury or medical trauma. Our range of services include care for orthopedic disorders, neurological disorders, sports medicine, wounds and burns, vascular disorders, arthritic conditions, muscle education, and training with assistive devices and techniques geared toward independence and self-care.
Capital Regional Medical Center provides a full continuum of cardiac services including cardiac education and a comprehensive cardiac rehabilitation program. At the CommuniCare Wellness Center, our cardiac wellness approach progressively moves patients toward a healthy lifestyle by educating them on proper diet and exercise. Cardiac surgery patients and those who have suffered a heart attack or other cardiac event -- as well as individuals at risk for coronary heart disease -- are accepted into the Cardiac Wellness Program with a physician's referral.
Physical fitness is crucial to both how long and how well you live. Our Fitness Center is open to the public. We offer well-equipped accommodations and a medically supervised conditioning program which includes a personalized fitness assessment and a customized plan for exercise and diet. Exercise programs are tailored to meet individual needs. State-of-the-art aerobic and resistance/training equipment make exercise programs easily adaptable to all needs and conditions.
Lower back pain can be a frustrating and agonizing experience. Our Back Rehabilitation Program offers you a multi-disciplinary approach to improve normal activity and manage back pain. Education, physical therapy and rehabilitation stressing the importance of continued exercise and proper body mechanics reduce the occurrence of low back pain. Participants must be referred to the program by a physician.
Under the supervision of a dietitian, you can learn simple strategies to make healthful eating a way of life. Our services include: clinical nutrition, preventive nutrition, sports nutrition, supermarket survival tours, and worksite wellness seminars. Nutritional services are available to all Fitness Center members, outpatient clients and the general public.
