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.