Physical Therapy
Physical therapists assess patients’ musculoskeletal system and educate
patients/families on safety and mobility.
Services physical therapists provide may include:
- Comprehensive assessment and treatment
- Pain
- Strength
- Range of Motion
- Balance
- Functional mobility
- Gross motor coordination
- Sensation
- Edema
- Transfer training
- Educate patients and caregivers
- Develop home exercise programs
- Assess patients’ needs for assistive devices
- Provide specialized individual care
- Work on treatment of incontinence
- Wound care
- Pain management
- Fall risk reduction, through balance training and recommendations on safety
- Patient education
- Specialized care
- manual therapy (massage, myofascial release)
- wound care
- modalities
- heat/cold treatment
- electrical stimulation
- ultrasound