Rehabilitation medicine
Rehabilitation Medicine employs around 180 staff and offers both inpatient and outpatient care for individuals who have sustained the following injuries in adulthood:
- Spinal cord injuries
- Brain injuries, including stroke and other neurological conditions
- Injuries leading to complex disabilities
- Additionally, we have outpatient teams specialising in the rehabilitation of chronic neurological diseases, residual polio paralysis, and multiple disabilities.
Each year, nearly 200 patients with severe disabilities and activity limitations receive inpatient rehabilitation, while around 1,200 patients undergo assessment and rehabilitation at our clinics in Lund and at Orup Hospital in Höör. Our staff are also involved in acute rehabilitation at neurology and neurosurgery departments in Malmö and Lund.
Regional and national specialised medical care
Beyond our local responsibilities, Rehabilitation medicine has a university hospital mandate to provide specialised rehabilitation services for southern Sweden. We are one of four nationally designated centres for spinal cord injury rehabilitation and one of three national centres for highly specialised care for residual polio paralysis.
Accreditation and quality monitoring
We offer three internationally accredited rehabilitation programmes covering:
- Spinal cord injury rehabilitation (inpatient and outpatient)
- Brain injury rehabilitation (inpatient and outpatient)
- General inpatient rehabilitation
- These programmes are accredited by CARF (Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities, USA), an international organisation that audits healthcare and rehabilitation facilities worldwide. Our current accreditation is valid from 2021 to 2024.
We also participate in the National Quality Registry for Pain Rehabilitation (NRS) to monitor and improve our rehabilitation services.
Research
Many of our staff hold doctoral degrees, and we have active doctoral students across multiple disciplines. We maintain a strong research partnership with the Rehabilitation Medicine research team at Lund University, which conducts studies in neurorehabilitation.
Our research focuses on:
- Rehabilitation following neurological injury or disease
- Ageing with a spinal cord injury
- Activity and participation outcomes after stroke
- Our commitment to research ensures that our rehabilitation programmes remain evidence-based and continuously evolving, benefiting patients now and in the future.