Meet Our Therapists
Our rehabilitation specialists take an individualized approach to your care. Our patients have a high rate of improved function and a high rate of satisfaction with our services. We work to make sure you receive the most cost effective care possible.
Physical Therapy
Through individualized programs, Mercy therapists help restore function and maximize recovery following illness, disease or injury:
- Injury of the neck, shoulder, back, hip, knee, ankle or foot
- Joint replacement
- Strokes or other neurological conditions
- Amputations
- Arthritis
- Balance problems/vertigo
- Post surgical conditions
- Fibromyalgia
- Lymphedema
- Injury of the hand, wrist or elbow
- Injury of the muscle, tendon or ligament
- TMJ
Types of therapy available:
- Aquatic therapy
- Manual therapy
- Neurological Rehabilitation
- Orthopaedic Rehabiiltation
- Sports Medicine
- Women's Health-Pelvic Floor Rehabilitation
- Prenatal Health
- Ergonomics Assessments
- Work Rehabilitation and Conditioning
Occupational Therapy
Through occupational therapy, learn how to meet the challenges of daily living, conserve your energy for the tasks that are most important to you or modify your environment to meet your need for independence.
Some illnesses or injuries treated by occupational therapy include:
- Stroke or other neurological rehabilitation
- Brain or spinal cord injuries
- Orthopaedic conditions
- Lymphedema
- Low vision
- Arthritis
- Pulmonary disease
Types of Occupational Therapy available:
- Hand Therapy
- Egonomic Evaluation
- Functional Capacity Evaluation
- Orthopaedic Rehabilitation
- Neurological Rehabilitation
Speech Therapy
Speech pathologists can assist you with speech, language and oral function difficulties and cognitive problems.
- Brain injuries or stroke
- Post surgical procedures
- Voice disorders
Types of speech therapy available:
- Memory and cognitive skills deficits
- Swallowiong disorder treatments
- Voice Restoration
- Aphasia Rehabilitation
Vital Stim
Vital Stim therapy uses small electrodes to stimulate the muscles responsible for swallowing. At the same time as the stimulation, we conduct therapy to help "re-educate" swallowing muscles. To learn more about Vital Stim, visit
www.vitalstimtherapy.com.
LSVT (Lee Silverman Voice Treatment)
LSVT is a proven, effective speech treatment program that restores oral communication in invidividuals with Parkinson's Disease. Recently, LSVT has been successfully applied to individuals with multiple sclerosis, stroke, ataxic dysarthria, aging voice, and vocal fold paralysis. To learn more about LSVT, visit
www.lsvt.org.
DPNS (Deep Pharyngeal Neuromuscular Stimulation)
DPNS is a systematized therapeutic method for pharyngeal dysphagia which utilizes direct neuromuscular stimulation to the pharyngeal musculature to restore muscle strength, endurance, pharyngeal reflex responses and pharyngeal reflex coordination.
Hand Therapy
A hand therapist is an occupational therapist who has completed advanced study and has specialized experience in evaluating and treating hands and arms. Hand therapists specilize in rehabilitation for persons having injury, surgery, or illness that affects any part of the arm from the upper arm to the fingertips. A hand therapist works with adults and adolescents who have been in an accident resulting from wounds, scars, burns, injured tendons or nerves, fractures or even amputation of the finger, hand or arm.
Also, surgery often requires specialized follow-up after repair or elective improvements to the arm, hand, wrist or fingers to get the benefit from the surgery. A hand therapist sould be your first choice for such therapy.
Click here for detailed information on Hand Therapy.
Sports Medicine
Our physical therapists help you recover from sports and recreation injuries. We understand that returning quickly and safely to your lifestyle is what's important to you. We offer expertise in expanding movement, relieving pain and improving function. Working under the direction of team physicians, we evaluate injuries and develop exercise programs to help reduce injuries and the risk of re-injury.
Lymphedema Treatment
Recognizing a need to attend to the special needs of women, our expanded outpatient physical therapy services include a women's health program. Our physical therapists are specially trained to provide therapy services that benefit women with a variety of medical conditions, promoting and enhancing women's health throughout the lifespan.
Click here for more information on our extensive list of women's health services.
