Services We Offer

Neurological rehabilitation

  • Neurological rehabilitation is designed to help treat patients with nervous system or neurological diseases
  • Rehabilitation aims to increase function, reduce debilitating symptoms, and improve a patient’s quality of life
  • The types of rehabilitation treatments recommended depend on the areas of the body affected by the neurological condition.

Symptoms

Any patient with a neurological condition may be referred for rehabilitation through a prescription or order provided by a doctor.

Symptoms that may prompt the need for neurological rehabilitation include:

  • Muscle weakness and abnormal muscle tone
  • Pain
  • Difficulty walking
  • Difficulty with daily activities such as eating, dressing, bathing, toileting
  • Difficulty swallowing
  • Difficulty speaking
  • Impairments in thinking, memory and problem solving
  • Impairments in vision or eye-hand coordination

Patients who benefit from neurological rehabilitation

  • Brain Injury and Tumor
  • Cerebral Hemorrhage
  • Congenital Neurological Disorders
  • Dystonia
  • Encephalitis
  • Meningitis
  • Memory Disorders
  • Movement Disorders
  • Multiple Sclerosis
  • Muscular Dystrophy
  • Neurofibromatosis
  • Neuromuscular Disorders
  • Parkinson's Disease
  • Stroke
  • Spinal Cord Injury

Treatment

  • Physical therapy help and treat patients with a disease or injury contributing to pain or to loss of strength, range of motion, balance or coordination. Their goal is to restore and maintain a person’s ability to move and do physical tasks.
  • Occupational therapy assess how well patients can do daily tasks such as eating, dressing, toileting and bathing. Their goal is to help patients do as much on their own. Occupational therapists can perform vision assessments as ordered by the physician.
  • Speech-language therapy treat patients who have problems with speech and thinking skills. These problems are common among those who have had a stroke, brain injury or other changes to the nervous system. Speech-language pathologists also work with patients who have difficulty swallowing.