Rehabilitation

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Working Together to Enhance Care

As a nationally recognized leader in oncology rehabilitation, we are focused on one goal: delivering excellent rehabilitative services in the most caring and professional manner possible. Our team relentlessly pursues minimizing functional impairments that can result from cancer and cancer treatments. The result is the highest-quality rehabilitative services around.

Rehabilitation Opportunities

Help make small improvements with a big impact

Our physical and occupational therapists are something special. Their combination of teamwork, commitment, and expertise results in extraordinary care for our patients—and exceptional careers for them.

Acute Care

Our acute care therapists provide innovative, comprehensive inpatient evaluations and treatment interventions. These aim to improve patients’ physical and cognitive wellbeing to enhance their quality of life throughout their cancer journey. This team focuses on physical therapy, occupational therapy, lymphedema therapy, and inpatient and outpatient pediatric therapy.

Outpatient

Our outpatient therapists provide innovative and comprehensive 45-60 minute, one-on-one evaluations and treatment sessions. Through these sessions, patients regain their functional independence and improve their quality of life throughout all phases of treatment. Treatments cover physical therapy, occupational therapy, lymphedema therapy, vestibular rehabilitation, pelvic floor therapy, and hand therapy.

Acute Care

Our acute care therapists provide innovative, comprehensive inpatient evaluations and treatment interventions. These aim to improve patients’ physical and cognitive wellbeing to enhance their quality of life throughout their cancer journey. This team focuses on physical therapy, occupational therapy, lymphedema therapy, and inpatient and outpatient pediatric therapy.

Outpatient

Our outpatient therapists provide innovative and comprehensive 45-60 minute, one-on-one evaluations and treatment sessions. Through these sessions, patients regain their functional independence and improve their quality of life throughout all phases of treatment. Treatments cover physical therapy, occupational therapy, lymphedema therapy, vestibular rehabilitation, pelvic floor therapy, and hand therapy.

Physical Therapy Oncology Residency Program

Help make small improvements with a big impact

The Physical Therapy Oncology Residency Program at Memorial Sloan Kettering is an 18-month intensive program providing post-professional didactic and clinical training to physical therapists. The program teaches PTs who want to develop advanced clinical skills and treat individuals with oncologic diagnoses across the continuum of care.

The program runs for 9 months in our acute care setting at Memorial Hospital, followed by a 9-month rotation in the outpatient setting at the Sillerman Center for Rehabilitation.

There’s a focus on developing a solid foundation in understanding the principles of oncology rehabilitation based on available best evidence and best practice. The program aims to prepare the resident to synthesize and apply advanced knowledge, clinical skills, evidence-based practice, and critical inquiry in evaluating and treating patients with cancer while addressing patients’ rehabilitative needs resulting from cancer and cancer treatments.

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HEAR FROM OUR EMPLOYEES

” In the rehab department, we thrive on continued professional growth through education and mentorship, which is encouraged and supported by the institution. ”

Danele Silverman Outpatient Therapy Supervisor