- This program is particularly useful for patients with neurological disorders stroke, stroke, and traumatic brain injury.
Occupational Therapy
Survivors of brain injury often have to re-learn simple tasks, such as basic self care, transportation skills, and money management. The Occupational Therapy Department helps individuals who've suffered a brain injury from a stroke or traumatic brain injury achieve independence, wellness and prevention in all facets of their lives. Following an acquired brain injury, occupational therapy assists clients in reconstructing their lives and developing the "skills for the job of living" necessary to lead an independent and satisfying life.
-The OT department provides functional self care evaluations and treatments in the areas of:
-Personal management
-Meal planning and preparation
-Mobility
-Money management
-Upper extremity/hand function
-Functional perceptual-cognitive skills
-Adaptive equipment and upper extremity splinting
-Recommendation and usage training
-Guidance to family members and caregivers
-Customized cognitive rehabilitation using re-training and compensatory strategies
-Home assessments for accessibility, accommodation and safety
Physical Therapy
-Services may include:
-Therapeutic exercise regimens
-Spasticity management programs
-Wheelchair seating clinic and mobility training
-Forced-use (neurodevelopment) techniques
-Intensive gait and transfer training programs
-Balance remediation techniques
-Cardiovascular endurance programs
-Aquatic therapy
Speech/Language Pathology
The Speech/Language Pathology department focuses on improving speech and language skills needed during activities of daily living (ADL). Reading, writing, and social skill are addressed and often focus on return to work or return to school goals.
It strives to remediate and/or develop strategies to improve a client's cognitive-linguistic functioning. Attention, memory, thought organization, problem solving/reasoning are addressed in individual and small group sessions. Implementation of "tools" to improve a client's cognitive functioning are utilized to help "bridge the gap" between the client's present level of functioning and the desired outcome.
-Cognitive - linguistic skills
-Language
-Speech
-Voice
-Augmentative and alternative communication
-Swallowing
Neuropsychology
Brain injury rehabilitation is a challenging process that requires a high level of motivation and effort on the part of the client. Individuals with acquired brain injury experience a number of challenges due to pain, fatigue, frustration tolerance, and a host of other factors that prevent the individual from progressing. Other factors that a brain injured client may and often experience are cognitive and emotional difficulties and problems with awareness and acceptance of disability. After extensive testing, services may include:
-Cognitive rehabilitation therapy
-Individual and group psychotherapy for depression, anxiety, and other psychological
consequences of brain injury
-Group treatment focused on stress management, disability adjustment, orientation
and cognitive skills
-Treatment for behavioral issues such as impulsivity, socially inappropriate comments,
substance abuse, physical and verbal aggression
Terapeutic recreation:
-Laughter Therapy
-Relaxation Therapy
-Listening to music.
-Teaching master-playing favorite board games.
Training of Family members and caregivers
At the end of the first session of two weeks delivery:
-The physical rehabilitation program and functional progress by achievement.
-A program of emotional support (manage depression and loss process)
-A physician nutrition program
-A training program for the family to the knowledge of process being experienced by the
patient and what is required of them in physical, emotional and nutritional health care.
-A Course Overview
-A specific course for people who provide home care.
-A proposal to follow up with combined therapy with clinical supervision from the review of
progress combined with biweekly for 5 months. For the sake of the patient is important, as a
charge in advance for this, or set up fee?
