Meet the Sharp Caregiver Video — Elissa Hanifin

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Sharp Caregiver Elissa Hanifin
Elissa helps get patients back to doing the things they enjoy
Elissa helps get patients back to doing the things they enjoy

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We individualize our treatment for each patient. We have goals that we’re working towards that we feel are important indicators of their ability to get around their home safely.

If they have lots of stairs, if they were very limited with their activity before the surgery. All those things need to be taken into consideration before we get someone up and walking around. And we can’t expect the same thing from each person because each person is different.

Well the reason that people come here to have this surgery is to open up an area in their life that hasn’t been available to them, to get them moving again, to get them down on the floor playing with their grandchildren, or going on fantastic vacations and hikes with their families and their loved ones.

And that’s something that’s important to me to be able to do all the things that I like to do. That’s why I’m a physical therapist, to help people return to the things that they want to do most.