Eastern Rehab Services
Helping you regain functional Independence.
Services
occupational therapy services | physical therapy services | speech therapy services | who can benefit
Working with your physician, our therapists address your individual needs and provide you the care you need to help you maintain and improve your quality of life by regaining functional independence.
Because there's no place as comfortable, relaxing, and healing as home when you're recovering from a debilitating illness, injury or surgery, we provide our services where the patient resides, be it an assisted living center, a residential care facility or, in the case of hospice care, in the patient's home.
Our therapists are highly trained health care professionals dedicated to helping you heal and regain functional independence.
Who Can Benefit from Outpatient Rehabilitation?
People suffering from any of the following conditions can benefit from outpatient rehabilitation.
- Osteo-Arthritis
- Orthopedic Procedures such as Hip or Knee Replacements
- Fractures (hip, knee, wrist)
- Stroke or CVA (old/new)
- Balance Deficits
- Multiple Sclerosis
- Parkinsons Disease
- Traumatic Brain Injury
- Diabetic Neuropathies
- General Debilitation
- Amputee
- Swallowing Difficulties (with aspirations)
- Cognitive Deficits
Occupational Therapy
Occupational Therapy involves a variety of activities designed to improve functional independence through:
- ADL (Activities of Daily Living) Training
- The maintenance, hygiene, dressing, feeding, eating, communication, mobility, home management and community living that allows an individual to achieve functional independence.
- Therapeutic Exercise
- Includes instruction and techniques emphasizing muscle strength, flexibility, range of motion, and the awareness of good body alignment
- Muscle Strengthening
- Ability of a muscle or muscle group to produce tension and a resulting force.
- Adaptive Equipment Assessment & Ordering
- The evaluation of an individual's need for certain equipment that may be required to help an individual regain functional independence. Examples include: reachers, bedside comodes, shower chairs, etc.
Physical Therapy
Physical Therapy involves a variety of activities designed to improve functional independence through:
- Gait Training
- Instruction in proper walking patterns, optimizing balance control, safety with reasonable energy expenditure.
- Therapeutic Exercise
- The implementation of bodily movement to correct an impairment to improve musculoskeletal function, or maintain a state of well being.
- Muscle Strengthening
- Incorporating various resistive exercises to strengthen specific muscle or muscle groups to help regain functional independence.
- Neuro-Muscular Reeducation
- A therapeutic technique that is used to improve balance, coordination, posture, kinesthetic sense and proprioception.
- Transfer Training
- Instruction in the ability to safely and properly transfer oneself with or without the aid of adaptive equipment or assisted devices.
- Assisted Device Assessment & Ordering
- The evaluation of an individual's need for certain equipment that may be required to help an individual regain functional independence. Examples include: wheel chairs, walkers, canes, etc.
Speech Therapy
Speech Therapy involves a variety of activities designed to improve functional independence by successfully treating:
- Dysarthria
- Distoned or slurred speech secondary to poor muscle control with emphasis on chewing and movement of the tongue.
- Dysphasia
- The difficulty or inability to swallow, resulting in the possibility of aspiration and or improper nutritional intake.
- Cognitive Rehabilitation
- An approach to the remediation of cognitive-perceptial skills that focuses on how the individual acquires and uses knowledge.
- Expressive Aphasia
- The inability to speak.
- Receptive Aphasia
- The inability to comprehend speech.
- Global Aphasia
- The inability to speak or comprehend.
With the help of a wheelchair, this woman
achieved functional independence...
and a nice jaunt through the park.