Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation

Our physical medicine and rehabilitation team uses exercises to help improve your overall function. This can include creating a home exercise program and creating prevention-based exercises to prevent future injury.

Our physical therapy team has a safe return-to-athletics program that helps people with sports-related injuries gain strength and stability before going back to sports.

Our physical medicine and rehabilitation team works with our orthopedic surgeons to develop a program to help you regain strength and stability after surgery. Learn more about orthopedics >

Our physical medicine and rehabilitation team can help those with nervous system injuries, diseases, or disorders improve function and provide symptom relief.

Nerve conduction studies are tests that show if you have nerve damage or dysfunction by measuring how well electrical signals pass through your peripheral nerves.

Electromyography is a test that shows whether your muscles and the nerve cells that control them are healthy.

Lymphedema is swelling in the arms, legs, and/or torso, caused by a blockage in the lymphatic system, which prevents lymph fluid from draining properly. Our lymphedema therapists provide individualized treatment to minimize symptoms, restore movement, and maximize comfort. In addition to providing treatments, we teach patients techniques to manage and control their condition on their own.

Manual therapy reduces pain, improves joint mobility, and restores function in your skeletal system using many different hands-on techniques.

Our physical medicine and rehabilitation team may use braces to help support joints and muscles to improve recovery and reduce the chance for injuries.

Dry needling relieves pain and improves movement by placing thin needles into trigger points in your muscles.

Our physical and speech therapy teams can provide care for children.

Our physical medicine and rehabilitation team can provide care for geriatric patients.

Our movement disorder program helps improve mobility, function, and quality of life for those with movement disorders including Parkinson’s disease, essential tremor, and dystonia.

Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation has a program designed to treat certain conditions associated with dizziness and vertigo. The first step is to see your family doctor and ask if vestibular rehabilitation or physical therapy could help. Your therapists will conduct a thorough evaluation, and based on the results, develop an individualized treatment program.

Our physical medicine and rehabilitation team can help with seating and positioning of people in wheelchairs to reduce discomfort and pressure injuries.

Our physical medicine and rehabilitation team work as a team to assess daily activities of someone with a complex wound and provide recommendations to improve healing. The team can also offer advanced wound care techniques for better healing. Learn more about our wound care program >

Occupational therapist can use exercises, massage, and mobilization methods to help improve circulation and reduce edema. They can also help you learn more about the value of compression therapy to prevent fluid buildup.

Fall prevention is very important to us. Our occupational therapists provide in-home fall risk assessments, which is a Medicare-covered service through outpatient services. The therapist is able to go into the home and assess risks for falling including footwear, home setup, balance, vision, cognition, and medication. Recommendations are given to individuals to help prevent future falls.

A speech therapist uses exercises and techniques to improve communication skills for those with speech, language, and voice disorders.

Our speech therapists can implement augmentative communication with patients, which uses objects, symbols, photographs, electronic aids, signing, and charts to help people communicate when they have issues talking or writing.

A speech therapist can perform a video swallow study, which uses an X-ray to make sure someone swallows correctly.