West Tennessee Rehab Center Offers Helping Hand
After a debilitating car accident or medical condition like a stroke, there is only one thing to do to get back on your feet: that is physical or occupational therapy. A car accident proved to require more than just a quick hospital stay for one West Tennessee woman. Makeya Hall was involved in an accident that left her more than a little bruised. “I was in a car accident where I flipped out of my truck,” Hall said. “I was ejected out of my truck and I broke my pelvic bone, fractured a couple of ribs, and broke my spine.” Unfortunately stories like Hall’s are not that uncommon. And that is where the West Tennessee Rehab Center steps in. Julie Taylor, the program director at the center, said the center does more than just help people walk again. “Our patients come and they are put through a rigorous therapy schedule and they have a minimum of three hours a day depending on their needs,” Hall said. “And we are really basically training them all over again. How to get out of bed, how to walk. Just depends on their individual needs.” This is why the West Tennessee Rehab Center said it i hosting its annual Rehab Reunion for the 25th year. “I think it’s always nice when you get to come back and see the therapists and physicians and the nurses that they’ve worked with and to show them how great they’ve done,” Hall said. The reunion will be hosted September 19 at the J. Walters Barnes Conference Center from 4 to 5:30 p.m.
