Rehabilitation

If you have difficulty being able to move due to pain or experiencing loss of range of motion or decreased strength, you could benefit from physical therapy.  Our staff use exercise and hands-on techniques to improve movement and function and relieve pain.

Some of the benefits of physical therapy include:

• Pain management
• Avoiding surgery
• Improved mobility and movement
• Recovery from injury or trauma
• Management of age-related medical problems

Playing sports may cause a wide range of injuries, such as sprains, knee injuries, dislocations and fractures.  Our sports medicine experts will help you:

• Recover from injuries faster
• Continue to advance in your sports career
• Improve your fitness and overall health
• Prevent sports injuries and illnesses

Communication disorders may happen after a stroke, causing a person to be unable to speak or even utter sounds.  Difficulties with speech, language or swallowing are treated by speech and language pathologists. They use the latest techniques in oral motor exercises and facial massage to improve your ability to communicate and swallow.

Our speech and language pathologists treat patients with:

• Swallowing disorders
• Speech and language skills
• Motor speech disorders
• Voice evaluation and therapy
• Cognitive retraining post concussion
• Traumatic brain injury
• Mild cognitive impairment

Hand therapy helps you recover from surgery or injury to your hand, wrist, elbow or shoulder. Our certified therapists help minimize pain and restore function.

In our state-of-the-art hand therapy facility, we treat:

• Upper extremity injuries (sprains, strains and fractures)
• Tendon and nerve injuries
• Arthritis
• Amputations
• Repetitive Strain Injury (pain or impairment caused by repetitive actions)
• Complex regional pain syndrome

You don’t have to live with pelvic pain. Our advanced trained physical therapists evaluate and treat patients with:

• Back, pelvic, abdominal, groin/pubic, penile and testicular, and pregnancy related pain
• Post-Cesarean section pain
• Bowel and bladder disorders (incontinence, constipation, urinary retention)
• Prolapse

If you’re frequently experiencing backaches and joint pain, you may find natural relief with chiropractic treatment. Your chiropractor will help to get your body in the proper position to let it heal naturally.

Chiropractic care includes:

• Moving and manipulating joints, massage, exercise and physical therapy
• Lower limb assessment for foot, ankle, knee and back abnormalities
• Treating sports injuries
• Spinal motion, bulging discs and disc herniations: Flexion distraction therapy
• Consultation for nutrition and supplements

Learn more out our chiropractic care.

Aquatic therapy is a safe form of physical therapy that takes place in a pool equipped with a lift chair, steps and rails. The water’s buoyancy allows freedom of movement that is ideal if you have difficulty exercising on land due to pain, weakness or paralysis

Our aquatic rehabilitation program helps people with restricted mobility by:

• Improving flexibility
• Improving balance and coordination
• Building muscle strength and endurance

Does muscle or back pain or some other limitation prevent you from being more physically active? Our musculoskeletal rehabilitation program can help you become more active. The program includes:

• Exercise programs to improve range of motion, muscle strength, mobility and endurance
• Gait (walking) retraining and methods of safe ambulation (including the use of a walker, cane, or crutch)
• Pain management

Our neuromuscular physical and occupational program is designed to rebuild strength of injured tissue and decrease specific areas causing you pain. Our team of therapists treat patients diagnosed with:

• Stroke
• Multiple sclerosis
• Head injury
• Parkinson’s disease
• Cerebral palsy
• Muscular dystrophy
• Spinal cord injury
• Amputations

An inner ear/balance (vestibular) disorder can often cause dizziness, vertigo, and imbalance.  Our balance and vestibular rehabilitation physical therapists work with you to stimulate and retrain the vestibular system.

The therapy program is designed to:

• Reduce vertigo and dizziness
• Provide eye movement control (Gaze) stability
• Improve balance

Lymphedema is a lifelong condition in which fluids gather in tissues causing swelling in parts of your body (arms, legs, face, neck), where the lymphatic system was damaged due to surgery or other medical conditions.

Our certified lymphedema therapists use Manual Lymphatic Drainage (MLD), a gentle-pressure technique used to move the waste fluids away from the damaged area. They will teach you how to manage lymphedema at home and help you through a home exercise program.

Some of the benefits include:

• Learning the lymphedema precautions and how to manage lymphedema at home.
• Decreased swelling using a noninvasive decongestive therapy.
• Pain management.
• Improved flexibility and range of motion.
• Appropriate conditioning to return to your daily activities.