Our facility has been designed to offer comprehensive services to meet the needs of the Medicare/HMO risk payor.
Our objective in Rehabilitation is to get each resident to their highest practicable functioning level. Often this means a return to the community or a greater ability to function independently.
Below is a list of many of the services provided by our licensed physical, occupational and speech therapists.
- Ortho/Neuro/COPD/Dementia/Diabetes
- Joint Injuries/Fractures
- Joint Replacements
- Stroke Rehabilitation
- Activities of Daily Living Skills
- Cognitive Assessment
- Discharge Planning
- Gait, balance and fall recovery programs
- Contracture Management
- Pain Management
- Edema Management
- Dysphagia - swallowing therapy
- Aphasia - speech/cognitive therapy
- Structural Instability/Postural Abnormality
- Wheelchair seating and positioning
- Therapeutic exercise and activities
- Strength and Endurance Training
- Modality use: ultrasound, diathermy, e-stim
- Wound Management Program
What are Modalities?
Modalities are any devices or equipment used to facilitate therapy outcomes.
Our new modalities include the following:
- Short-wave diathermy: A drum-like machine, approximately 8 inches in diameter, which puts out magnetic waves to increase deep tissue temperature, circulation and elasticity.
- Ultrasound: A smaller wand-like instrument, which puts out sound waves and has much the same effect as the above, used to treat smaller areas of tissue.
- Traditional treatments:such as hot packs only heat up tissue down to a fraction of an inch. In contrast, our ultrasound and diathermy machines can be used to heat tissue to a depth as much as 3 centimeters or 1-1/4 inches.
- Electrical stimulation: Two machines that use electrodes placed on the skin through which electric impulses are sent to cause muscle contractions.
What are the modalities used for?
Modalities are used in conjunction with skilled therapy and are useful for:
- Increasing circulation
- Decreasing swelling and edema
- Deep heating tissue to allow for greater elasticity, useful for contracture management
- Decreasing pain
- Increasing muscle movement, range of motion, strength
Examples of modality use in the therapy department:
- Pain management for arthritis, stroke
- Reduce swelling in hands and feet
- Increase circulation and heat tissue before stretching joints to increase ROM and decrease contractures
- Stimulate muscle movement and increase muscle strength in patients with limited ROM, as with stroke or joint injuries