The health profession that helps a person improve the use of bones, muscles, joints, and nerves. Treatment involves physical movement to relieve pain, restore function and prevent disability following disease, injury or loss of limb.
Physical therapists use a variety of techniques to help patients gain or regain better control of their physical bodies following injury or illness. These include evaluation, therapeutic exercises, gait training, adaptive equipment recommendations, massage, heat, cold or electrical treatments and are all geared toward helping the patient attain his/her maximum functional motor potential.
Typically, this service is considered skilled care. Customized exercises include stretching and strengthening , manual therapy such as soft tissue mobilization, massage and specialized manual techniques.
The physical therapist works in conjunction with the patient, family, nursing staff and patient's physician to develop a specific plan of treatment and goals for functional improvement. All CHOICE Rehab, Inc. physical therapists and physical therapy assistants are state licensed professionals whose experience and expertise bring immeasurable innovation to their facility and patients.
Occupational therapy is the science of using everyday activities with specific goals, to help people prevent, lessen, or overcome physical disabilities. It is a skilled treatment that helps people return to ordinary tasks around home and at work by maximizing physical potential through lifestyle adaptations and possible use of assistive devices. This type of therapy includes exercises, adaptive equipment, splinting, joint protection and energy conservation. It focuses on developing functional skills related to fine motor skills, ADL's (activities of daily living) such as bathing, feeding, dressing, grooming, etc. and it can also address issues pertaining to visual perception and hand-eye coordination. The term occupation, as used in occupational therapy, refers to any activity engaged in for evaluating, specifying and treating problems interfering with functional performance. Therapy or treatment is rehabilitative, active, or restorative, and designed to correct or compensate for a medical problem interfering with functional performance.
The occupational therapist works in conjunction with the patient, family, nursing staff and patient's physician to develop a specific plan of treatment and goals for functional improvement. All CHOICE Rehab, Inc. occupational therapists and occupational therapy assistants are state licensed professionals whose experience and expertise bring immeasurable innovation to their facility and patients.
Assessment and treatment of speech defects, such as problems of voice production, articulation and language which resulted from birth, disease, injury, or prior medical treatment. Therapy is used to increase communication skills. It may also include teaching sign language, using a communication device and/or audiology services. Additionally, dysphagia (swallowing disorder) assessment and treatment falls under the auspices of the speech-language pathologist.
The speech-language pathologist initiates and applies appropriate preventive, therapeutic and rehabilitative procedures and techniques. This therapy includes speech evaluation, tongue exercises, speech drills, and use of audio and visual machines to help restore a person's ability to speak and understand language.
The speech-language pathologist works in conjunction with the patient, family, nursing staff and patient's physician to develop a specific plan of treatment and goals for functional improvement. All CHOICE Rehab, Inc. speech-language pathologists are state licensed professionals whose experience and expertise bring immeasurable innovation to their facility and patients.