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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: PM R. 2017 Sep;9(9 Suppl 2):S324–S334. doi: 10.1016/j.pmrj.2017.04.017

Table 1.

Impairments That May Require Post-Acute Inpatient Rehabilitation Admission

1) Systemic:

  1. Deconditioning/Cachexia/Asthenia

  2. Cancer related fatigue

 3) Musculoskeletal:

  1. Peripheral edema due to other conditions (e.g. bone marrow transplant inflammation, hypoalbuminemia)

  2. Pathologic Bone Pain

  3. Amputation (e.g. External Hemipelvectomy)

  4. Myopathy

    1. Steroid myopathy

    2. Critical Care Myopathy

  5. Restrictions due to post-surgical flaps
2) Neurologic:

  1. Brain Injury from brain mass

    1. Todd’s Paralysis

    2. Radiation Necrosis

  2. Spinal Cord Injury due to spinal mass and/or compression from vertebral fracture

    1. Lower motor neuron – e.g. sacrectomy

    2. Upper motor neuron

  3. Leptomeningeal disease +/− intrathecal chemotherapy

  4. Central nervous system radiation necrosis

  5. Radiculopathy due to tumor invasion

  6. Plexopathy due to radiation or tumor invasion

  7. Chemotherapy Induced Peripheral Neuropathy

  8. Neurogenic Bowel

  9. Neurogenic Bladder

  10. Spasticity

  11. Cognitive Deficits including Chemo-Brain

  12. Autonomic Dysfunction including Orthostatic Hypotension

  13. Dysphagia

  14. Dysphonia

  15. Paraneoplastic syndromes

    1. Neuropathy

    2. Cerebellar Dysfunction