Whether you are recovering from joint replacement surgery, stroke, an illness or injury, rehabilitation care may be essential to helping you achieve your best possible health. In addition, rehabilitation may also be used to assist patients in managing physical challenges that arise from chronic conditions or to prevent injuries. Providing both acute inpatient rehabilitation and extensive outpatient therapies, we are able to treat the needs of patients of all ages. Our team of physical therapists, occupational therapists and speech-language pathologists, provides high level, hands-on clinical expertise in both inpatient and outpatient settings.
Physical Therapy
Our team of physical therapists work hand-in-hand with your physician to assess your rehabilitation needs and treat a wide range of musculoskeletal and neurological conditions. Physical Therapy, which is physician prescribed, can help patients:
- relieve pain and swelling
- regain movement and promote healing
- restore function post-injury
- adapt to permanent physical challenges such as amputation or CVA/stroke
- overcome exacerbations of pre-existing medical conditions such as arthritis, fibromyalgia, neuropathies, orthopedic problems, or musculoskeletal disorders (back/neck pain, knee or shoulder injuries, etc.)
- learn about their conditions and any applicable home exercise programs improve gait, balance and coordination
- increase endurance
- improve or correct posture
- promote flexibility
- achieve muscle re-education
- help those recovering from hip and knee replacements
Your physical therapist is experienced in many treatments including hot/cold packs, ultrasound, massage, electrical stimulation, traction, stretching, therapeutic exercises, wound care, gait training, prosthetics and orthotics.
Speech Therapy
Our Speech Therapists evaluate and treat patients with communciation and swallowing disorders. A Speech Therapist may perform speech and language evaluations, standard swallowing evaluations and radiographic barium swallow studies. Speech Therapy, which is physician prescribed, can help patients who have or have had:
- Cognitive/linguistic impairments
- Swallowing disorders (dysphagia)
- Oral/motor impairments
- Partial or complete removal of tongue or larynx
- An inability to communicate through speech, writing or signs
- Speech impairment secondary to neurological disorders
- Head injury and CVA/stroke
- Voice disordershearing impaired communication
Types of Speech Disorders
Aphasia - the loss of ability to use words to communicate because of inability to remember the correct word.
Dysarthria - the loss of ability to produce speech because of muscle weakness or coordination.
Apraxia - the loss of ability to say words, not because of muscle weakness, but because of interruption of brain functioning to send the correct message to produce the word.
Occupational Therapy
Occupational therapy is skilled treatment that helps individuals achieve and maintain independence in all aspects of their lives. From learning how to get around in the kitchen after a stroke or injury to achieving maximum recovery for a joint injury, occupational therapy gives people the "skills for the job of living" and always works to improve your quality of life.
Cognitive language problems - ineffective communication
For more information about our Rehab Services, please call 352-544-6028.