At Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, we offer a variety of rehabilitation services to help patients throughout all phases of treatment. This includes occupational and physical therapy, as well as physiatry -- the medical discipline concerned with restoring and improving patients' function and quality of life.
Patients who are experiencing difficulty hearing, swallowing, or speaking may benefit from our Speech, Hearing, and Rehabilitation Program, which provides a variety of services to help restore function and enhance quality of life following certain cancer treatments.
The occupational and physical therapists who staff Memorial Sloan-Kettering's physical rehabilitation department have special expertise in the care of patients with cancer. Rehabilitation medicine is the medical discipline concerned with restoring and improving patients' function and quality of life.
The Speech, Hearing & Rehabilitation Program provides a variety of services with the goal of enhanced quality of life for patients with head and neck, as well as other types of cancer.
