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Because of our leadership in the field of physical medicine and rehabilitation, Kessler receives widespread media coverage. Members of our medical and clinical teams are frequently called upon to share their expertise and insight.
Our programs and services, as well as patients and staff, are often featured in newspaper, magazine, radio, television and online stories. In addition, our Corporate Communications office regularly alerts the media to news about Kessler's advances in treatment, consumer health issues and corporate business activities.
The following is a sampling of Kessler's recent media coverage.
In The News
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July 15, 2010
U.S. News & World Report Ranks Kessler Institute One of America's Best Rehabilitation Hospitals
U.S.News & World Report
Nation's largest rehabilitation hospital ranks #2 in the country; tops in the East.
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July 1, 2010
Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation Offers Tips on Tennis Fitness
On local courts or at Wimbledon's center court, tennis players who want to perform at their best and avoid injury should focus on fitness. Kessler specialists offer tips on training and game techniques.
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June 1, 2010
Kessler Institute Offers Tips to Avoid Golf Injuries
Proper warm-up, strengthening exercises and improved swing techniques can help golfers avoid injury and even improve their game. Kessler's certified back-to-golf specialist provides some recommendations.
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June 1, 2010
Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation presented with Gallup Great Workplace Award
Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation has been named one of this year's recipients of the prestigious Great Workplace Award from The Gallup Organization. The award recognizes those companies with the best performing workforces in the world and Kessler is one of only 25 companies to receive this honor this year.
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April 19, 2010
Kessler Rehabilitation Center opens second facility in Edison
Kessler Rehabilitation Center is pleased to announce the opening of its newest outpatient physical therapy facility at 3 Progress Street, Suite 106, in Edison. The Center is part of the outpatient division of Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation, one of the nation's leading providers of comprehensive medical rehabilitation services.
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March 26, 2010
Kessler Institute on NBC News
Kessler patients Linda and Dave Kubert, who were profiled in a feature story on NBC News, have something in common that few other married couples can claim – their left legs were amputated following a motorcycle accident in September of 2009. Together, they have fought to recover the skills and mobility to move forward. Equally important they have begun to fight for new laws targeting "distracted drivers."
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March 14, 2010
New tour of duty: Military moms and wives serve as caregivers
The role of caregiver is not an easy one. Just ask the mother or wives of three soldiers injured in separate incidents in Iraq, who are now Kessler Institute receiving comprehensive treatment for traumatic brain injury.
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October 12, 2009
Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation Helps to "Lighten the Load"
Specialists offer tips for carrying backpacks, bags and briefcases
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Click the play button above to view a video on bag safety tips
Publications
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June 2, 2008
The Road to Recovery
Advance for Physical Therapists & PT Assistants
In this article, Lauren McDonagh, PT, Director of Rehabilitation Services, and Antoinette Gentile, OT, Clinical Manager, discuss how a multidisciplinary team of stroke rehabilitation specialists, utilizing both evidence-based treatment and advanced technologies, can help individuals to achieve the optimal functional outcomes. Full Article
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January 24, 2008
A Long Road Home: A Case Study of a Ventilator Dependent, Dual Diagnosis Patient
Advance for Physical Therapists & PT Assistants
One of the most devastating injuries causing long-term impairment is a traumatic spinal cord injury at a high neurological level with concomitant traumatic brain injury. This case study by Kessler therapists Barbara Garrett, PT, Jill Garcia, MS, OTR, Cindy Nead, COTA, and Rena Ranieri, MS, CCC-SLPoutlines the course of physical, occupational and speech therapy as a component of inpatient interdisciplinary rehabilitation for this patient, a 24-year-old who sustained a spinal cord injury at the Cl level resulting in complete tetraplegia. Full Article
