Rehabilitation Treatment Customized For You
Lymphedema Management: Comprehensive decongestive physical therapy is provided for patients with mild to moderate lymphedema, an abnormal swelling condition brought on by cancer, genetic abnormalities or multiple surgical procedures. Treatments include skin care, compression bandaging and lymphatic drainage massage and patient education. Your treatment program may include land and/or aquatic exercise to facilitate lymphatic drainage.
Manual Therapy: Manual therapy is incorporated in treatment for patients who require soft tissue manipulation, joint mobilization or myofascial release. To help reduce stiffness and restore joint motion, therapists use manual therapy in conjunction with therapeutic exercise and patient education to accelerate recovery from musculoskeletal injuries.
Sports Therapy: The goal of an injured athlete is to return to their previous level of competition as quickly as possible. Our sports therapy program promotes recovery, injury prevention and peak performance through physical therapy.
Spine Rehabilitation: Our focus is to promote optimal function following spinal injuries, surgery or chronic pain. We incorporate flexibility and strengthening exercises, education on posture and body mechanics, manual therapy and aerobic conditioning. Each individual’s diagnosis is unique and our program recognizes this throughout the healing process.
Vestibular Rehabilitation: Our facility offers evaluation and treatment for dizziness, vertigo and balance difficulties due to positional vertigo, head injury, whiplash, labyrinthitis, stroke and multiple falls. Computerized dynamic posturography evaluates the inner ear, eyes and extremities and their contribution to balance. An individualized program of movement exercise, visualmotor coordination, balance training, safety education and ways to compensate for permanent damage will be a part of your therapy.
Aquatic Therapy: You’ll have access to a warm water (86-93 degrees Fahrenheit) therapeutic pool, with stairs, ramp or chair lift accessibility. Patients with diagnoses such as fibromyalgia, myofascial pain syndrome,orthopedic dysfunctions, joint pain and sports injuries may be eligible for aquatic therapy. Therapists are trained in basic water
safety and CPR and will design aquatic exercise programs using water to address deficits in strength, flexibility, conditioning and function.
Occupational Therapy: Rehabilitation for patients with limited hand or upper extremity function from injuries, arthritis, cumulative trauma such as carpal tunnel syndrome,work injury or neurological disorders is offered through our occupational therapy program. Customized splinting is available as well as equipment for work and daily living simulation. Occupational therapy may assist you in improving visual perceptual and cognitive skills following a neurological injury to facilitate independence in your daily activities.
Speech Pathology: Patients with speech disorders can receive therapy at Rush-Copley. From stuttering to disorders of articulation, phonology or accent reduction, all of your speech needs can be handled here.
Language Therapy: Brain injuries, stroke or developmental delays can affect language skills. Our speech-language therapists may help improve comprehension, expression,memory, problem solving and reasoning skills for the pediatric to geriatric population.
Voice Therapy: Vocal abuse,nodules or laryngectomy or other head or neck injuries can lead to problems producing clear and pleasant-sounding voices. Voices that are too hoarse, breathy or loud can be improved with individual treatment programs. Services may also be geared for the professional voice including vocal hygiene, maximizing vocal effectiveness and accent modification.
Swallowing Therapy: Evaluation and treatment, including video fluoroscopy, is provided for patients of any age who have difficulty chewing, sucking or swallowing food or liquid (dysphagia). This may be due to stroke, brain injury, head and neck surgery, other illnesses or developmental delay.
Women’s Health Therapy: This is a specialty that addresses women’s health concerns throughout the life cycle. The therapist designs treatments for musculoskeletal dysfunction during pregnancy, postpartum and post-cesarean section care. Female athletes and women with osteoporosis may also benefit.
Pelvic Floor Therapy: Available for male and female patients to treat pelvic pain, urinary and fecal incontinence, chronic prostatitis,urgency and frequency alterations, pelvic muscle weakness and episiotomy pain.