We can provide you with the professional treatment that helps restore normal function, improve mobility, and achieve a greater degree of independence.
The Benefits of Physical and Occupational Therapy include:
- Better balance and coordination
- Decreased pain
- Improved ability to perform activities of daily living
- Improved strength
- Increased range of motion
- Restoration of normal function
For an appointment in our Rehabilitation Department, please contact your physician for a referral.
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Our treatments encompass all ages from pediatrics to geriatrics. Our rehabilitation services offers both inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation services for those who have experienced a loss of function due to injury or illness. Our therapists offer a range of rehabilitation services and treatments including:
- Attention deficit disorder, developmental delay, and teaching learning strategies
- Balance, walking and vestibular problems
- Cardiac Rehab – Outpatient Phase 2
- Ergonomic and Workspace evaluations and treatment for work-related injuries
- Knee and hip replacements
- Pain management including arthritis, Fibromyalgia, and neck or back pain
- Severe sprains or strains, tendonitis, carpal tunnel syndrome and plantar fasciitis
- Therapy following an injury, fracture, or surgery
- Splint fabrication
- Stroke rehab
- Wound care
Pediatric Occupational Therapy
Occupational therapy helps people develop the skills they need to join in everyday activities to lead a full and happy life. At Northern Light Health, our pediatric occupational therapists build treatment programs specific to your child, their goals, and their environment.
For infants and children, our we use play and clinical technique to build the physical and emotional tools they need every day to improve their physical, social, and emotional development, sensory processing skills, and cognition.
Occupational therapy can help with the following:
- Infant development concerns (including torticollis and cranial vault asymmetry)
- Autism Spectrum Disorders
- Bowel and bladder dysfunction
- Difficulty in managing emotions and behaviors
- Fine & gross motor issues
- Activities of daily living (ADL)
- Behavior regulation
- Cognitive sensory processing and integration
- Eating and feeding
- Executive functioning
- Infant Head shape
- Motor function and control
- Oral motor skills
- Positioning
- Play skills
- Social interaction
- Self-care
- Sleeping
- Visual motor skills
- Writing and cutting skills
Speech Therapy
We provide a full range of care to children, including outpatient evaluation and treatment for articulation/phonological disorders, language, and fluency (stuttering), as well as outpatient care for adults who are living with or recovering from stroke, head and neck cancer, neurological disease, dysphagia, and cognitive-communication issues.
Our speech langauge pathologist also provides inpatient coverage at CA Dean Hospital and outpatient and inpatient care at Northern Light Mayo Hospital in Dover-Foxcroft.
For an appointment in our Rehabilitation Department, please contact your physician for a referral.