types of therapy at embassy healthcare

With Embassy Healthcare therapy services, you can improve your mobility, pain management, nutrition and overall quality of life. Our dedicated therapy staff has extensive experience providing residents personalized therapy sessions for their unique needs.

Physical Therapy

This therapy helps you recover from an illness, injury or surgery that affects mobility and strength. Physical rehabilitation can relieve chronic pain, improve balance, optimize recovery and prevent future injury or rehospitalization.

Physical therapy includes:

• Cardiovascular and pulmonary training
• Hydrotherapy
• Neurological physical therapy
• Vestibular therapy
• Orthopedic therapy
• Age-related therapy
• Hot and cold therapy

You may benefit from physical therapy if you have muscle strains, knee injuries, nerve pain, arthritis, and neurological disorders.

Occupational Therapy

Occupational therapy helps you relearn or improve your ability to complete activities of daily living (ADL). This therapy combines physical, cognitive and emotional assessments to determine your level of function and improve your quality of life. Occupational therapists focus on fine motor skills and movements you use daily at home and work.

You may benefit from this type of therapy if you have:

• A neurological condition, like a stroke
• Arthritis
• A spinal cord injury
• Alzheimer’s or dementia
• Diabetes

Speech Therapy

You’ll learn about speech, language, communication and swallowing techniques during speech therapy. Conditions such as Alzheimer’s, dementia, stroke, brain injury, Parkinson’s disease and oral cancer may require speech therapy. It also addresses problem-solving and memory skills.

During speech therapy, you’ll learn:

• Communication strategies
• Socializing skills
• Exercises to strengthen oral muscles
• Breathing exercises
• Swallowing exercises

Respiratory Therapy

Respiratory therapy focuses on improving the function of your lungs and airways by managing the symptoms of breathing conditions.

Respiratory therapists perform chest exams, monitor vital signs and listen to breathing sounds to create an appropriate care plan. You’ll learn techniques like belly breathing and pursed lip breathing to improve lung function. Respiratory and pulmonary care also help people transition from assisted breathing equipment, like ventilators, to independent breathing.

You may benefit from respiratory therapy if you have:

• Asthma
• Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
• Heart conditions
• Emphysema
• Lung cancer
• Sleep apnea

Nutritional Counseling

A nutritional counselor or dietitian manages your dietary needs as you age. They develop nutrition plans to help you reach your wellness goals. You’ll work with a dietician to assess your body weight and eating patterns and make necessary changes in food choices.

Certain treatments and medications affect your body’s ability to absorb nutrients. Nutritional counselors identify those barriers and create meal plans to get you essential vitamins and minerals.

Nutritional counseling can help those with:

• Eating disorders
• Depression and anxiety
• Diabetes
• Heart disease
• Cancer
• Kidney disease

Wound Care

Wound care is intended to prevent long-term complications following a surgery or injury. Proper wound care lowers your risk of infection like sepsis and allows your wounds to heal effectively. You may benefit from wound care if you have an abrasion, puncture, laceration or avulsion.

Wounds require oxygenation, bandage changes and cleaning to heal. Wound care staff are trained to watch for signs of infection and inflammation and assist with physical discomfort.

Pain Management

Pain management uses medication and therapies to ease acute and chronic pain caused by illness, injury or surgery. A pain management specialist will evaluate your pain and provide the necessary medication and rehabilitation to address your physical discomfort. If you don’t want to use medication to treat pain, your specialist can suggest acupuncture, hot and cold treatments and massage therapy to address your needs.

Contact Embassy Healthcare online or call 216-378-2050 to learn more about our therapy and rehabilitation services.