Rehabilitation
Rehabilitation Services
Rehabilitation Services is a multidisciplinary outpatient program specializing in a variety of therapies which help to ease the transition back to everyday life. Our skilled rehabilitation professionals provide extensive support to restore function, reduce pain, and maximize functional mobility.
Our services
We are proud to offer the following outpatient rehabilitation services to assist you on your journey to a successful recovery:
Physical therapy
Our Physical Therapists begin with a physical evaluation. During the evaluation, patients undergo a series of tests and measures to determine range of motion, muscle strength, postural alignment, and abnormalities in movement patterns. Assessments include an evaluation of functional activities of daily living, sensation, balance, coordination, endurance, and nerve function.
Our physical therapy program provides significant benefits for those with back or neck pain, arthritis, headaches, carpal tunnel syndrome, osteoporosis, and many other conditions that affect your stamina, endurance, and comfort.
We personally tailor a wide range of exercises and treatment programs to meet your needs and goals. Your treatment plan, under the careful guidance of our physical therapists, may include:
- Dry needling from experienced therapists
- Therapeutic activities to restore functional movement and ability
- Neuromuscular re-education to improve balance and posture
- Manual therapy techniques to improve joint and soft tissue mobility
- Modalities to decrease inflammation and swelling
Speech-language pathology
Our Outpatient Speech Language Pathology Program includes evaluations and therapy for adult patients. We also help patients who have head/neck cancer-related speech and/or swallowing issues, voice evaluation and therapy for patients who present with voice problems, and coach tracheostomized adults requiring assistance with communication and swallowing.
In collaboration with the Outpatient Radiology Department, we offer modified barium swallow studies for doctors wanting further evaluation beyond our outpatient clinical evaluation.
We help those who have communication or cognitive impairments as the result of a stroke, brain injury or neurological disease, including:
- Understanding and using language
- Memory, thought organization and reasoning
- Word finding
- Social communication
- Oral-motor therapy, including tongue thrust (lisp)
- Articulation (speech-sound production)
- Apraxia of speech
- Literacy difficulties, including phonological awareness
- Assistive/augmentative communication
- Fluency (stuttering)
Occupational therapy
If you are looking to return to a more independent lifestyle doing the things you love, our Occupational Therapists may be able to help you. Our occupational therapists work with adults needing specialized assistance. A wide range of exercises and treatment programs are tailored to meet your needs in activities of daily life and work.
Our Occupational Therapy program can provide significant benefits for adults with the following conditions, among others:
- Arthritis
- Hand/upper extremity injuries
- Spinal cord injuries
- Parkinson’s disease
- Multiple sclerosis
- Repetitive strain injuries
- Joint arthroplasties
- Orthopedic trauma/post-operative conditions
- Skeletal, muscle, tendon & ligament pain
- Body malalignments (scoliosis)
- Chronic pain/fibromyalgia
- Musculoskeletal trauma
- Work-related injuries
- Weakness or loss of motion
- Neurological impairments (stroke, head injuries)
Your treatment plan may include:
- Therapeutic exercises to increase strength, range of motion and flexibility
- Stretching and job simulation tasks
- Electrotherapy for biofeedback, strengthening, and to improve neuromuscular coordination
- Education to help you understand the evaluation findings and treatment plan
Our Rehabilitation Clinic is open from Monday through Friday from 8am-4:30pm and by appointment. To contact us, please call 504.592.6600 or via fax at 504.592.6446. Doctor referrals are required.
