Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation

Physical therapy helps restore and maintain maximum movement and functional ability. For seniors, therapy can help improve mobility, balance, range of motion, and physical strength.

Physical therapy helps improve function, musculoskeletal health, and mobility. Individuals with joint or muscle pain or those who have balance problems or difficulty walking can benefit from physical therapy. Following surgery, physical therapy can be effective in reducing pain, swelling and joint stiffness, and helping you regain lost muscle strength and endurance. Typical programs may include:

• Therapeutic exercise
• Gait and balance training
• Muscle re-education
• Innovative treatment modalities such as heat, cold, and electrical stimulation

Physical therapy is a covered benefit by most insurances when ordered by your healthcare provider or with an initial evaluation by a physical therapist and a follow up order from your doctor.

Occupational therapists can be instrumental in helping seniors regain or maintain their independence. Trained therapists work with a variety of diagnoses to educate, alleviate pain, improve safety, and enhance functional performance.

Occupational therapy is concerned with quality of life, and can help people improve their functional abilities and adapt to life changes. By taking the full picture into account—a person’s psychological, physical, emotional, and social makeup, as well as their environment—occupational therapy assists clients to:

• Achieve goals
• Function at the highest possible level
• Concentrate on what matters most to them
• Maintain or rebuild their independence
• Participate in daily activities that they need or want to do

Innovative therapies, programs, and procedures include:

• Education and training in daily living skills (e.g., bathing, dressing, eating, grooming, using the bathroom, meal preparation, home management)
• Sensory-motor skills re-training
• Strength and range of motion training
• Cognitive integration techniques
• Selection and use of adaptive equipment
• Design, fabrication, and application of orthoses (splints)

Speech therapy helps improve neurologically impaired abilities to communicate, chewing, and swallowing disorders, memory, and/or communication difficulties.

Speech-language pathologists help with all aspects of communication, including speech, voice, language, reading, and writing. Our highly trained therapists use treatment modalities, specialized equipment, and leading-edge therapies to maintain the ability to communicate. Speech therapy also strives to restore and maintain cognition.

To help restore normal function for residents who have difficulty swallowing, we have specialized dysphagia therapies. Speech therapies and procedures include:

• Exercises to stimulate receptive, integrative, and expressive processes
• Sensory-motor activities to stimulate chewing, swallowing, articulatory, and voice processes
• Selection and training in the use of no-oral communications aids, including augmentative systems
• Specialized swallowing therapy
• Cognitive skills training
• Compensatory swallowing techniques

Our in-house therapy team provides a stable, day-to-day therapist to patient relationship for occupational, speech and physical therapy.