After injury or illness, physical therapy helps patients get back to work, play and their lives. Deaconess Illinois Medical Center’s team works to create programs that improve movement, balance, endurance and strength for patients, helping them move—onward, upward and forward.

At Deaconess Illinois Medical Center, the physical therapy team works with you to restore movement and function. We want to help you return to the activities that you feel are most important. Through the use of strength and range of motion exercises, balance activities, endurance training, manual therapy techniques, and various other methods, therapists are able to help patients with a variety of injuries and illnesses affecting all areas of the body.

We provide quality one-on-one care for all aspects of rehabilitation including post-surgery rehabilitation following total knee and hip replacements, back pain, and other musculoskeletal injuries.

In addition to providing post-surgical services (such as those needed after joint replacement), common conditions treated include:

• Back and Neck Pain
• Work Related Injuries
• Sports Injuries
• Shoulder Rotator Cuff Tears, Tendonitis
• Post-Surgical Rehab for Rotator Cuff Repairs, total Knee and Hip Replacements and Arthroscopic Knee Surgeries
• Knee Pain, Arthritis
• Ankle and Foot Pain
• Balance Issues, including frequent falls or general de-conditioning that limits your level of activity
• Vestibular Rehab
• Pelvic Floor Muscle Weakness