Our intensive Aphasia Therapy outpatient program centers on strengthening communication skills, auditory comprehension, verbal and written expression, and speech.
Aquatic therapy for inpatients and outpatients is provided by physical and occupational therapists with advanced training. The goal is to improve strength and flexibility, reduce pain, build endurance, and restore balance.
The 75-by-25-foot therapeutic pool is specially designed for people with disabilities. The water temperature is maintained at a constant 90 degrees. Features include easy wheelchair access; Hydraulic lift and overhead sling transfer lift; Stairs with rails, transfer bench, and warm water jets; Bench in the water for those who need to sit while exercising; and Accessible locker rooms and showers.
AT encompasses various tools, from off-the-shelf to customized, enhancing functional capabilities for activities like feeding, dressing, and communication. Trained therapists collaborate to identify and recommend the most effective AT, promoting independence in daily life, from low-tech solutions like reachers to high-tech environmental control units.
AAC enhances communication for individuals with speech or language challenges. It includes methods like electronic devices and communication boards, aiding expression and boosting social interaction. AAC, either temporary or permanent, aims to meet unmet communication needs, promoting meaningful participation in daily activities. A collaborative team, led by a speech-language pathologist, assesses, develops, and trains individuals and their families, incorporating input from occupational and physical therapists for optimal effectiveness.
The Cognitive Therapy Program is an intensive full day, individualized program that includes a mix of group and individual therapies provided on an outpatient basis.
Gaylord specialists understand that every concussion is unique, and the priorities for recovery will differ depending on the patient's age and the type and extent of the injury. Our team of physiatrists, neuropsychologists, sports medicine physical therapists, vestibular/balance specialists, and occupationaland speech therapists delivers personalized care for each patient, supporting individual goals for recovery.
Gaylord Outpatient Services is uniquely qualified to help you complete your recovery from COVID-19, especially if you are dealing with long-COVID symptoms. Our expertise in rehabilitation, experience with inpatient COVID patients, and ability to customize services provide our patients with superior outcomes.
Problems with swallowing and can occur with many neuromuscular or neurological diseases or conditions such as MS, Parkinson's, ALS, stroke, brain injury, Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS), acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM), and so forth.
Guillain-Barré (GBS) is a rare autoimmune disorder that disrupts typical nerve function. The condition is caused when a person’s body mistakes its own cells as dangerous and begins to secrete autoantibodies that target nerves. This leads to side effects, often beginning with weakness and tingling in the legs. Depending on the severity of your impairment, an inpatient or outpatient program can be customized for you at Gaylord.
LSVT BIG addresses movement challenges in people with Parkinson's, enhancing small and large motor skills for daily activities like buttoning a shirt or maintaining balance while walking. Meanwhile, LSVT LOUD focuses on recalibrating perceptions to help individuals with PD speak at a more normal level of loudness, improving communication in various settings.
If problems with memory or an inability to think clearly have become a continuing problem for you, you may be a candidate for a Neuropsychological Evaluation.
Occupational therapy helps patients regain the ability to perform daily activities safely and efficiently.
Physiatry diagnoses and treats conditions that have resulted in temporary or permanent loss of function affecting independence. The goal is to improve quality of life by avoiding surgery and narcotics.
Skilled physical therapists work with patients to define goals, reduce pain, and enhance mobility, function, as well as personal performance. Gaylord uses advanced technologies and techniques to accelerate rehabilitation and return people to maximum health and quality of life.
Our team evaluates a patient's strength, gait, balance, coordination, medication, and current prosthetic or orthotic use. New technologies are changing the shape of this field, and our clinical staff will introduce patients to the best options available. Whether getting up on a new prosthetic for the first time or interested in new technology, we can help.
The role of psychosocial services is to evaluate current functioning, including assessment of affect, personality characteristics, behavior, cognitive abilities, adjustment to disability, substance use and behavioral health. Following the evaluation,
treatment recommendations for psychosocial and other related services are made. Treatment may include individual, couple and family/support system counseling and/or group therapy, as well as cognitive/memory rehabilitation.
Speech-language pathologists at Gaylord specialize in treating speech, language, and cognitive deficits associated with neurological disorders. Speech therapists help with the recovery of speech, verbal expression, and comprehension. They support the recovery of reading, writing, and other cognitive and communication skills. Swallowing impairment (dysphagia) and stuttering are also key conditions treated by Gaylord speech experts.
Vestibular rehabilitation therapy (VRT) is offered through Gaylord’s Outpatient Services. It’s an exercise-based program designed to reduce vertigo and dizziness, gaze instability, and imbalance or falls. VRT is performed by a certified physical or occupational therapist with the goal of promoting compensation. Compensation techniques teach the brain to use other senses (vision and body sense) as a substitute for a deficient vestibular system. Vestibular deficits may often be permanent, but VRT can help patients feel and function much better by establishing an exercise program that can be performed regularly at home.
Our Wheelchair Assessment Service is led by physical therapists who are certified Assistive Technology Professionals and supported by suppliers of complex rehab technology who assist in advanced equipment selection. They work with clients to identify goals, physical capabilities and challenges, in environments where the equipment must function at the highest possible level. Other services include computerized pressure mapping assessments, standing frame evaluations, custom seat cushion and back support shape capture. Proper evaluation can reduce costs, improve mobility and quality of life, and - equally important - prevent complications that result from ill-fitting equipment.
We offer coordinated, individually managed, team-based, rehabilitative, and complex medical care for injured workers in inpatient and outpatient areas. Treatment plans are created and led by a board-certified medical director with extensive workers' compensation experience and coordinated by a dedicated Care Manager.
For most teenagers, graduating from high school is a rite of passage that marks one of their first steps into adulthood.
For Bella Chambasis — who has endured more hardship and loss than most of us face in a lifetime — those eight steps she took across the stage at her ceremony on Thursday, June 12, were the culmination of years’ worth of hard work and the fulfillment of a vow she made shortly after emerging from a coma in 2021. Read Bella's story.
