Services
- TheraTogs™ www.theratogs.com
- TheraTogs are an exo-muscular system for neuromotor postural and sensory training. The suit is worn under the patients clothes for up to 16 hours a day and provides the patient with body awareness, bone and joint development, sensory input, assists with stability issues, provides joint alignment, and assists with motor performance.
- SPIO™ www.spioworks.com
- Stabilizing Pressure Input Orthosis (SPIO) is a fitted suit that assists patients with stability and by providing proprioception through deep pressure.
- Treadmill
- Monthly orthotic clinic
- Strengthening
- Lite Gait® www.litegait.com
- Assists in gait training by providing correct posture, reducing weight bearing, maintaining balance, and allowing the therapist to manually assist the patient with proper gait patterns.
- NICU follow up clinic
- The NICU follow up clinic offers parents of neonate graduates peace of mind. The infant receives a standardized developmental screening by a team of therapists consisting of an OT, ST, and PT. The team assesses the infant’s gross motor, fine motor, oral motor, social and cognitive development. Therapists will also be able to answer developmental questions and provide you with information so your child can reach their milestones. Upon completion of the screening, the team recommends a follow up in 3 months or a referral for therapy services based on the findings. The infants are followed until 2 years of age.
- Development of gross motor skills
- Gross motor skills involve the large muscles of the body that are used for functions such as: standing, walking, lifting, reaching, sitting, kicking, jumping, running, maintaining balance, and coordination.
- Neuro-Developmental Treatment™ (NDT)
- NDT is the primary treatment technique for individuals with central nervous system impairment such as children with cerebral palsy or traumatic brain injury. NDT evaluates a person’s movement to determine the focus of therapy. Therapeutic handling is used to assist in the facilitation of typical movement to gain function.
- Physical modalities
- Aquatic Therapy
- Aquatic therapy is water-based exercise/activity that is beneficial for patients that demonstrate difficulty with weight bearing activity caused by injuries or physical inability. The water allows buoyancy, helps reduce joint pain, and provides resistance during physical activity.
- Interactive Metronome-Gait Mate www.interactivemetronome.com
- The Gait Mate is an extension of the Interactive Metronome and is used to treat motor planning, sequencing, coordination and balance. The Gait Mate allows the patient to work on neurological processing with ambulation in a dynamic format by providing a constant, real-time feedback about their performance.
- Kinesio Taping® www.kinesiotaping.com
- Kinesio Taping® involves the use of a special type of tape that is applied to the skin over a specific muscle or joint. This tape can be used for several purposes, but its most common use is to facilitate an increased use of the proper muscles to perform specific movements for an extended period of time. Due to increased use of the muscle, strength increases and the quality of movement improves.
- Therasuit Program® www.suittherapy.com
- The Therasuit is a soft dynamic proprioceptive orthotic primarily used to restore alignment and proper function of postural muscles to allow the patient to relearn proper motor patterns for functional movement. The Therasuit and Universal Exercise Unit (UEU) has been developed and is used in treatment primarily indicated for patients with neurological disorders such as cerebral palsy, traumatic brain injury, spasticity, hypotonia, athetosis, ataxia, ect. This system combines skilled physical therapy intervention and principles with European technology to target tone management, increase range of motion, increase strength in specific muscle groups, improve correct motor patterns of movement, inhibit compensatory/reflexive movement patterns, and improve overall functional mobility. The UEU and Therasuit can be used together or separately for individual treatment sessions or during an intensive 3-week program. The 3-week intensive program will consist of therapy three hours per day, five days per week, for a 3-week period.
- Sensory Integration
- Our senses include touch, hearing, sight, taste, smell, gravity, joint and muscle movement. SI is a neurological process that provides us with the ability to combine all of these senses and enables a child to appropriately interact with people and their environment. Sensory integration is a part of normal development for most children through play and everyday activities. In children who lack the integration we see development delays, learning deficits, feeding difficulties, and behavior problems. These deficits may occur due to their inability to process sensory information appropriately.
- Neuro-Developments Treatment™ (NDT)
- NDT is the primary treatment technique for individuals with central nervous system impairment such as children with cerebral palsy or traumatic brain injury. NDT evaluates a person’s movement to determine the focus of therapy. Therapeutic handling is used to assist in the facilitation of typical movement to gain function.
- ADL training
- Activities of daily living (ADL) are the basic daily activities one does to be independent. These activities include things such as: bathing, dressing, eating, grooming, transferring to and from the bed or chair, toileting, ambulation, shopping, cooking, and housework.
- Handwriting Without Tears® www.hwtears.com
- Handwriting Without Tears® is a program that evaluates and treats the child as a whole when looking at handwriting. Handwriting problems may include difficulty with letter formation, letter spacing and sizing. These problems are commonly addressed by determining the underlying causes of poor handwriting or frustration with handwriting. During a handwriting evaluation, it is important to consider a child’s visual-perceptual and visual-motor skills as well as ensure that the child has all of the prewriting skills necessary to be successful with handwriting.
- Kinesio Taping® www.kinesiotaping.com
- Kinesio Taping® involves the use of a special type of tape that is applied to the skin over a specific muscle or joint. This tape can be used for several purposes, but its most common use is to facilitate an increased use of the proper muscles to perform specific movements for an extended period of time. Due to increased use of the muscle, strength increases and the quality of movement improves
- Visual Perceptual Training
- Children that have difficulty with discrimination of objects, memory, form constancy, figure ground, or tracking would benefit from visual perceptual training.
- Oral Motor/Feeding therapy
- Due to medical complications, many children do not develop oral skills required to coordinate sucking and oral exploration during early development. A lack of oral skill development often leads to difficulties in oral feeding. We work with feeding on all levels from enteral to oral feeds. Some children are not born with feeding issues but develop feeding problems due to sensory impairments, sensory-motor impairments, or failure to thrive. These children may have oral aversion, limited food choices, poor appetite, poor intake or weight gain. After an extensive evaluation, the best-individualized treatment approach is chosen and implemented.
- Interactive Metronome www.interactivemetronome.com
- IM is a brain-based rehabilitation assessment and training program. This purpose of IM is to improve processing abilities that affect attention, motor planning, and sequencing. Focusing on these areas strengthens motor skills, mobility and gross motor function, and cognitive abilities such as planning, organizing, and language skills.
- Development of fine motor skills
- Fine motor (FM) activity is important to ensure proper development and practice of fine motor skills that are essential for functional use of hands. Examples of FM activity are: shoe tying, manipulating small objects such as buttons, zipping and unzipping, using scissors, pinching, opening and closing objects, handwriting, grasping items, and being able to isolate finger movements.
Speech Therapy
- Articulation/Phonological Processing
- Treatment involves correcting inappropriate productions of standard speech sounds due to incorrect placement of the lips, tongue, teeth, velum, and pharynx during speech.
- Fluency/Stuttering Therapy
- • Persons who stutter would be taught to use fluency enhancing techniques to reduce or eliminate the occurrences of stuttering during spontaneous speech.
- Voice Therapy
- May involve correcting abnormal pitch, loudness, resonance, and/or quality of voice that interferes with communication.
- Oral Motor/Feeding Therapy
- Due to medical complications, many children do not develop oral skills required to coordinate sucking and oral exploration during early development. A lack of oral skill development often leads to difficulties in oral feeding. We work with feeding on all levels from enteral to oral feeds. Some children are not born with feeding issues but develop feeding problems due to sensory impairments, sensory-motor impairments, or failure to thrive. These children may have oral aversion, limited food choices, poor appetite, poor intake or weight gain. After an extensive evaluation, the best-individualized treatment approach is chosen and implemented.
- Interactive Metronome www.interactivemetronome.com
- IM is a brain-based rehabilitation assessment and training program. This purpose of IM is to improve processing abilities that affect attention, motor planning, and sequencing. Focusing on these areas strengthens motor skills, mobility and gross motor function, and cognitive abilities such as planning, organizing, and language skills.
- Early child and school-aged language intervention
- Children may have difficulties comprehending and/or using spoken and written communication. Deficits may be identified in the form, content, and function of the language system. Functional language approaches focus to improve the child’s ability to communicate basic wants and needs. Improving the overall use of spontaneous communication, social skills, vocabulary improvement, syntax, and grammatical understanding and use are also commonly treated.
- Augmentative communication
- Augmentative and alternative communications are forms of communication (other than oral speech) that are used to express thoughts, needs, wants, and ideas. It includes things such as facial expressions, gestures, symbols, pictures or writing.
- Cognitive therapy
- Children with speech/language impairments may also have cognitive deficits. Cognitive impairments may present areas of weakness in memory, perception, reasoning/judgment, attention, and problem solving. Speech-language pathologists work with children to improve their overall “thinking” skills.
- VitalStim® therapy www.vitalstim.com
- A non-invasive, external electrical stimulation therapy used in the treatment of patients that have swallowing disorders or dysphagia.
- Developmental play therapy
- Children learn by playing. Therapists play with children during therapy to create an atmosphere for learning, to help children use their senses to explore objects, and to improve the child’s overall thinking skills.
- Behavior Modification
- A variety of techniques may be used to help remove or reduce undesirable behaviors and replace them with appropriate ones.
