Early and often" once referred to the way people voted on Election Day in certain big-city political precincts. Now it refers to the way rehab therapy is delivered to stroke and neurological trauma patients.
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"We like to start therapy within days of the stroke victim's injury and then provide as much therapy to that person as they can safely handle during the time with us," says Nick Helmkamp, MS, PT, a Level II physical therapist assigned to the inpatient stroke and orthopedic program at Mary Free Bed Rehabilitation Hospital in Grand Rapids,Mich.
One thousand miles east at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital in Boston, the goal is to begin ...