Initial Evaluation
Examination and assessment of current conditions
Review of physician's diagnosis
Review of medical history and current medications
Home Exercise Program (HEP)
A Home Exercise Program (HEP) is prescribed and emphasized as the ONLY way that you personally can work towards your goals, it helps you carry over the progress made and helps the healing to take place.
An HEP can be performed at home, or outside in the yard, the park, at your gym or office with minimal equipment or modifications. All workouts depending on your space and tools and will be thoughtfully considered.
Assessment and review
Assessment and review of the apartment set up, clearing paths and removing obstacles, ergonomic set up of work and home offices is imperative for safety and future considerations. If a patient lives with others, everyone is involved. If a patient has a caretaker, then this becomes a group meeting and a group effort.
Therapeutic Exercise
Therapeutic Exercise includes a range of motion, strengthening, stretching of involved joints and muscles as well as compensatory areas of the body.
Therapeutic Activity
Bed mobility, positioning, transfer training, brace adjustment, wheelchair settings and mobility, ordering, installation of and use of medical equipment, safety assessment, Home Exercise Program, patient education, Home Health Aide and family training to assist during sessions and on NON PT days.
Ambulation assistance, gait corrections, mobility training: including choosing, measuring, and setting up the most appropriate assistive device, stairs training, inside and outdoors.
Gait Training
Joint mobilizations, Soft tissue work, Muscle Energy Technique, McConnell and sports taping.
Manual Therapy
Neuromuscular Re-education
Postural corrections, Balance retraining, Motor control, coordination and motor relearning.
Aging in place
Safety and patient education while "aging in place" is important to our family members near their sunset years. Remaining independent at home and living "the same" is what we mostly strive for.
As a geriatric physical therapist, I can be part of the team that creates the safest environment for your senior family member, allow me to help you with this.
We use telehealth, video chatting and the use of technology to administer Physical Therapy and intervene to assist in pre and post surgery, injury recovery, rehabilitation, exercise science and maintenance programs.