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Physical Therapy
Physical Therapy helps people who experience difficulty with mobility due to pain,
arthritis, stroke, heart disease, diabetes, Parkinson's, MS and other diagnoses.
Physical Therapy can:
Occupational Therapy
Occupational Therapy helps people who experience difficulty with daily activities such
as dressing, bathing, cooking, etc. Due to arthritis, stroke, heart disease, Parkinson's
and other common diagnoses.
Occupational Therapy can:
Speech Language Pathology
Speech Language Pathology helps persons who experience difficulty speaking,
thinking, remembering, listening, reading, writing and swallowing due to a stroke or
neurological disease like Parkinson's, MS or ALS or due to developmental disorders.
Speech Language Pathology can:
Physical Therapy helps people who experience difficulty with mobility due to pain,
arthritis, stroke, heart disease, diabetes, Parkinson's, MS and other diagnoses.
Physical Therapy can:
- teach you ways to improve your joint mobility, muscle strength, physical
endurance and balance
- help you improve you independence getting in and out of bed, chair,
wheelchair, etc.
- teach you skills to improve your safety and independence with walking and
teach you how to use a walker, cane or other assistive device if necessary
- help you improve your wheelchair mobility
- assess your home environment for safety
- apply physical modalities for pain, muscle spasms, and improved circulation
- (ultrasound, electro stimulation, TENS)
Occupational Therapy
Occupational Therapy helps people who experience difficulty with daily activities such
as dressing, bathing, cooking, etc. Due to arthritis, stroke, heart disease, Parkinson's
and other common diagnoses.
Occupational Therapy can:
- Increase joint mobility, muscle strength and physical endurance
- increase independence in activities of daily living and related self care skills
(bathing, dressing, meal preparation, etc.)
- assess your environment for modifications and adaptive equipment to increase
ease and safety of daily activities
- provide education for work simplification, energy conservation and joint
protection
- physical modalities for pain and functional mobility
Speech Language Pathology
Speech Language Pathology helps persons who experience difficulty speaking,
thinking, remembering, listening, reading, writing and swallowing due to a stroke or
neurological disease like Parkinson's, MS or ALS or due to developmental disorders.
Speech Language Pathology can:
- help anyone of any age, infancy through adulthood
- teach ways to compensate for any disorder
- teach lip reading for those hard of hearing
- improve clarity of speech for non-native English speakers
- teach your child sign language as a way to improve communication
- improve swallow safety
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