SERVICES
Outpatient
rehabilitation services are a critical part of the health
care delivery
system—restoring patients to health, reducing or avoiding
disability, improving productivity and quality of life, avoiding
re-hospitalization, and reducing the need for expensive and
painful surgeries.
PTPN offers a wide range of outpatient rehabilitation services
including physical therapy, occupational therapy, hand therapy,
pediatric therapy, and speech/language therapy.
PHYSICAL THERAPY
PTPN offers a complete range of physical therapy
to rehabilitate patients from the weekend warrior to the accident
victim, using a variety of procedures, modalities, home exercise,
and return-to-work programs. Many practices offer work conditioning,
back school, job site assessment, functional capacity, and
isokinetic testing.
OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY
These specialized services help patients with
functional limitations to improve movement, strength, coordination,
and dexterity, and to manage pain. The goals are to improve
self-care, leisure, and work skills, and to prevent injury
through industrial consulting, ergonomic assessment, and adapted
equipment.
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HAND
THERAPY
A
subset of both physical and occupational therapy, hand therapy
specifically focuses on problems of the shoulder, elbow,
wrist, and hand. Hand therapy treats acute trauma, pain
syndromes, cumulative trauma, and arthritis. Hand therapists
are skilled in the area of work-related injuries and provide
work hardening and job site assessment.
PEDIATRIC
THERAPY
Pediatric
physical and occupational therapists serve children with
special needs who have orthopedic and neurological diagnoses.
Most therapists providing this care have been certified
in Neurodevelopmental Training (NDT) or Sensory Integration
(SI) Therapy.
SPEECH/LANGUAGE
THERAPY
Speech/language
pathologists treat a wide range of diagnoses including cerebral
palsy, head injury and stroke patients, and swallowing disorders
to improve language, speech, cognitive, memory skills, and
oral motor functioning, and to prevent further deterioration.
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