Services
Physical Therapy
We can help you improve your strength, balance, confidence, and endurance, prevent falls, return to an active lifestyle, restore the ability to walk indoors and outdoors, improve stair climbing ability, decrease pain, and decrease shortness of breath. Physical therapists also educate caregivers and family, and prescribe home exercise programs.
“Among older adults receiving care at a fall prevention clinic after a fall, a home-based strength and balance retraining exercise program significantly reduced the rate of subsequent falls compared with usual care provided by a geriatrician.”
Theresa Liu-Ambrose, PT, PhD
Many older adults are fearful of falling; our PT treatment sessions can help improve walking confidence, speed, and quality. Because we work in your home, our PT can identify any fall risk issues in your own environment.
PT treatments can focus on joint flexibility, muscle strength, and stability. We improve our clients’ balance and address vertigo and dizziness. We also address chronic and acute pain.
Occupational Therapy
As adults age, tasks which were once second-nature become more challenging. We help improve activities of daily living such as dressing, bathing, toileting, grooming, and self-feeding. We also help with medication management, meal-preparation, and household management. OT can address the need for environmental changes in the home to increase safety and decrease fall-risk. In addition, we assist with stress-management for caregivers.
“OTs actively involve the client in the fall prevention process to better understand individual fall risk factors and intervention priorities. Teaching clients how to identify and solve problems is an important part of the occupational therapy process.”
Elizabeth Walker Peterson, PhD, OTR/L, FAOTA
Occupational Therapy can address the overall wellness of a client by working on stress-reduction techniques, pain reduction, and by prescribing exercise programs for the upper body, posture, and core muscles.
Clients and caregivers alike benefit from OT treatments for dementia and progressive neurological conditions like Parkinson’s Diesease and ALS. Treatments increase client independence, thereby reducing the responsibilities of caregivers.
We Provide Effective Treatments for:
Parkinson’s disease
Dementia and Alzheimer’s disease
Joint replacements
Injuries of the upper and lower extremities
Falls
Decreased balance
Injuries of the neck and back
Decreased mobility
Decreased walking speed, quality, and/or endurance
Chronic pain
Decreased strength/muscle weakness
Stroke
Decreased independence in daily activities
Caregiver stress
