Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation

Our physical therapists help patients prevent, manage, or recover from musculoskeletal conditions so they can achieve long term benefits. Our treatment techniques aim to reduce pain, improve and restore mobility, prevent disability, and restore function. Areas of treatment may include:

• Increasing strength and mobility in the body and lower extremities
• Increasing motor control
• Improving coordination, balance, and the ability to walk
• Improving overall strength conditioning, range of motion, and endurance
• Pain management
• Teaching proper body mechanics to prevent injury
• Fall prevention or recovery training
• Orthotic and/or prosthetic training

Our occupational therapists address various physical, cognitive, psychosocial, sensory, and perceptual issues to help patients function better in their life and/or work. Through personalized care plans, we help patients lead safer, healthier, more independent lives following an illness, injury, or surgery. Areas of treatment may include:

• Training in self-feeding, grooming, toileting, bathing, dressing, and homemaking skills
• Training in the use of adaptive equipment, compensatory techniques, and/or environmental adaptations
• Increasing strength and coordination of upper extremities
• Increasing safety awareness
• Cognitive, visual and perceptual motor retraining
• Wheelchair assessments, and wheelchair mobility, and position training
• Orthotic and/or prosthetic training

Our speech-language pathologists address, prevent, diagnose, and treat various speech and language disorders to help patients improve their communication and social skills. We also help patients with swallowing disorders so they can eat and breathe with greater ease, safety, and enjoyment. Areas of treatment may include:

• Increasing speech intelligibility with oral motor exercises, drill, and compensation training
• Increasing reacquisition of language
• Vocal training for hoarseness, strain, increasing projection, and eliminating vocal abuse
• Training pragmatics for social use of language
• Improving safety awareness with training of cognitive skills: executive function, problem solving, attention, memory, and sequencing
• Diet texture modifications to ease swallowing difficulty
• Oral and pharyngeal muscle strengthening
• Education to improve swallowing and prevent aspiration

Rehabilitation provides a comprehensive approach that can include aspects of physical therapy, occupational therapy, or speech therapy depending on the patient’s needs following an injury or trauma. Our services may include:

• Stroke and neurological rehabilitation
• Cognitive retraining
• Spinal mobilizations
• Flexibility and strength training
• Arm and hand therapy
• Back care
• Orthopedic care
• Sports injury care
• Post-surgical care