Lourdes Rehabilitation Department examines ways to improve quality of life by making sure each patient reaches his or her maximum use of physical abilities.

Physical Therapy

This program evaluates and treats people with health problems resulting from injury or disease. A therapist will assess joint motion, muscle strength and endurance, and lung function, then develop an individual program of exercise, electrical stimulation, and heat/ice treatment.

Occupational Therapy

Individuals, who have congenital, developmental, and acquired disorders which involve the nervous, musculoskeletal, and cardiovascular systems, receive treatment that improves their ability to function on-the-job.

Services include:

• evaluation
• therapeutic exercise
• ADL (Activities for Daily Living) training
• wheel chair evaluation
• feeding and dressing training
• perceptual training
• fine motor training
• post-surgical hand rehabilitation
• pediatric/early intervention
• sensory integration
• splint fabrication

Speech Pathology

Speech pathology treats patients of all ages who have a diagnosis of congenital, developmental, and acquired disorders involving the nervous and musculoskeletal systems.

This includes:

• evaluations
• speech/language therapy
• video fluoroscopic swallow and speech studies
• swallow therapy
• voice therapy
• post/surgical head/neck cancer rehabilitation
• pediatric/early intervention
• foreign/regional accent reduction