Inpatient Therapy
Several therapies are provided by our inpatient therapy team, including:
- Occupational therapy
- Physical therapy
- Speech therapy
- Recreational therapy
Occupational therapy
Occupational therapy services provide evaluation and treatment to improve patients’ functional skills, increase self-sufficiency, and improve the quality of life. Specific services include the following:
- Assessing the performance of self-care tasks and advanced activities of daily living such as cooking, child care, and money management
- Provision of adaptive equipment
- Rehabilitation of upper extremities/hand injuries
- Fabrication of splints or casts to increase mobility and prevent joint contractures
- Enhancing memory, attention span, problem-solving and decision-making skills
- Addressing visual-perceptual deficits through compensatory strategies
- Therapeutic activities to increase strength, range of motion and motor control
- Technologies and modalities such as electrical stimulation and Vision Coach
- Assessing low vision and visual perceptual skills that impact activities of daily living
- Driver Rehabilitation Program
Physical therapy
Physical therapy services include the evaluation and treatment of patients requiring neurological or musculoskeletal rehabilitation or wound care. Specific services include the following:
- Therapeutic exercises to regain mobility, strength and balance
- Mobility training to gain independence with walking or maneuvering a wheelchair
- Treatment of neck and back pain
- The use of specialized manual techniques to improve tissue function, which could include soft tissue mobilization, functional orthopedic approach, muscle energy, strain/counter strain, and joint mobilizations
- Technologies and modalities such as electrical stimulation, iontophoresis, ultrasound and MotoMed
- Wheelchair evaluation/assessment to provide patients with access to vendors and therapists for wheelchair seating and positioning needs, often including the use of Pressure Mapping System
- Lymphedema management
Speech therapy
Our speech-language pathologists offer a comprehensive scope of services including assessment and treatment for patients with communication, cognitive or swallowing difficulties to make a functional difference in their daily lives. Services include:
- Videofluoroscopic swallowing evaluations and treatment for difficulty swallowing
- Evaluation and treatment of speech-language and cognitive impairments related to stroke and other neurological conditions
- Rehabilitation for people with a tracheostomy
- Augmentative alternative communication assessments
- Addressing motor speech disorders such as verbal apraxia and dysarthria
- Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulation for the treatment of swallowing disorders
- Patient and caregiver education and training, which is an important component of treatment sessions