Working with your physician, our staff and therapists address your individual needs. We will provide you the care you need to help you maintain and improve your quality of life by regaining functional independence.

OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY

Occupational Therapy involves a variety of activities designed to improve functional independence through:

ADL (Activities of Daily Living) Training

The maintenance, hygiene, dressing, feeding, eating, communication, mobility, home management and community living that allows an individual to achieve functional independence.

Therapeutic Exercise

Includes instruction and techniques emphasizing muscle strength, flexibility, range of motion and the awareness of good body alignment.

Muscle Strengthening

Ability of a muscle or muscle group to produce tension and a resulting force.

Adaptive Equipment Assessment & Ordering

The evaluation of an individual’s need for certain equipment that may be required to help an individual regain functional independence.

PHYSICAL THERAPY

Physical Therapy involves a variety of activities designed to improve functional independence through:

 

Gait Training

Instruction in proper walking patterns while optimizing balance control safely with reasonable energy expenditure.

Therapeutic Exercise

The implementation of bodily movement to correct an impairment to improve musculoskeletal function or maintain a state of well being.

Muscle Strengthening

Incorporating various resistive exercises to strengthen specific muscles or muscle groups to help regain functional independence.

Neuro-Muscular Reeducation

A therapeutic technique that is used to improve balance, coordination, posture, kinesthetic sense and proprioception.

Transfer Training

Instruction in the ability to safely and properly transfer oneself with or without the aid of adaptive equipment or assisted devices.

Assisted Device Assessment & Ordering

The evaluation of an individual’s need for certain equipment that may be required to help an individual regain functional independence.

SPEECH THERAPY

Speech Therapy involves a variety of activities designed to improve functional independence by successfully treating:

Dysarthria

Distoned or slurred speech secondary to poor muscle control with emphasis on chewing and movement of the tongue.

Dysphagia

The difficulty or inability to swallow, resulting in the possibility of aspiration and or improper nutritional intake.

Cognitive Rehabilitation

An approach to the remediation of cognitive-perceptial skills that focuses on how the individual acquires and uses knowledge.

Expressive Aphasia

The inability to speak.

Receptive Aphasia

The inability to comprehend speech.

Global Aphasia

The inability to speak or comprehend.