|
|
 |
 |
| Saint Therese offers inpatient and outpatient occupational therapy, physical therapy and speech language pathology on both the New Hope and Brooklyn Park campuses.
Collectively, occupational, physical and speech therapies are known as
rehabilitation services.
The licensed therapists are available to visit with you and your doctor. Rehabilitation care is covered by Medicare and most insurance plans.
|
|
Our occupational therapists treat individuals who have conditions that limit their abilities to perform functional activities in their daily lives. Occupational therapists can work with you to improve motor control, coordination, sensory motor skills, decision making, problem solving and visual perception.
Occupation therapy helps with the following areas: |
- Daily living skills—dressing, hygiene, eating
- Decreased strength for daily routines
- Energy conservation/work simplication
- Equipment needed to replace function
- Fatigue when completing daily tasks
- Loss of skill after an accident, illness or injury
- Memory problems
- Problems with driving after a stoke or injury
- Safety in your home
- Vision problems interfering with daily routines
|
|
When people are unable to produce speech sounds correctly or fluently, or has problems with their voice, then they have a speech disorder.
When they have trouble understanding others (receptive language) or sharing thoughts, ideas and feeling completely (expressive language), then they have a language disorder. A stroke can result in aphasia, or a language disorder.
Our speech language pathologists work to improve communication skills in: |
- Expressive language (speaking/writing)
- Receptive language (listening/reading)
- Nonverbal communication (facial expression/gestures)
|
| They also work on: |
- Swallowing deficits and eating problems
- Cognitive retraining to build skills in attention
- Memory, sequencing, problem solving
- Inability to follow directions
- Hearing deficits
|
|
| Physical Therapists use treatment techniques to promote the ability to move, reduce pain, restore function and prevent disability. Our services include therapy for: |
- Range of motion
- Gait training
- Transfer training ability
- Strengthening
- Coordination
- Pain management
- Balance training
- Cardiovascular endurance
- Safety and fall ris
|
Physical therapists work with you to determine appropriate assistive devices such as walking aids, wheelchairs and other adapted equipment needs.
| |
|
 |
“A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.”
- Maurice Chevalier
|
 | |
|
|
 |
|
|
