Senior Restorative Therapies

Our therapy professionals work with you to help regain muscle strength, endurance and flexibility. With oversight from your physician, our therapists are involved every step of the way, helping you regain physical and mental abilities lost due to an injury or surgery. Our therapy professionals provide:

• Gait training with any appropriate assistive device you might need
• Ultrasound and electrical stimulation
• Massage and thermal agents
• Assessment of the living environment and recommendations, as needed
• Safety awareness training
• Balance, transfer, strengthening and endurance training
• Individual therapeutic exercise programs

Our occupational therapists work with each resident to re-learn self-care and/or physically adjust to major life changes due to an accident or illness. They help residents re-learn simple daily tasks that are an important part of everyday living. Our therapists provide services to:

• Maintain or increase joint mobility, muscle strength and physical endurance
• Increase mobility, improve strength and endurance
• Prescribe appropriate adaptive equipment to maintain or increase functional independence
• Increase independence in activities of daily living and related self-care skills (including fabricating and monitoring of orthotic devices)

Our speech therapists work with you to regain speaking and hearing skills to help you communicate more effectively. The therapists provide a variety of patient-specific treatment programs for residents with speech/language, cognitive, linguistic and swallowing disorders. They provide:

• Cognitive skills treatment
• Language treatment
• Oral motor exercises
• Vocal treatment
• Dysphagia treatment (swallowing and chewing)