Occupational therapyOccupational therapy focuses on helping people find ways to do their activities of daily life. This form of therapy refers to skilled treatment that assists people in developing the "skills for the job of living" that is necessary for independent and satisfying lives.
Many people benefit from occupational therapy, including those with physical or cognitive limitations following an injury, stroke, heart attack, or with limitations from arthritis, multiple sclerosis, birth injuries, learning problems, or developmental disabilities.
Speech therapySpeech therapists work with individuals who have complications related to speech, language, cognitive-communication and swallowing disorders. These difficulties can result from a variety of causes including stroke, brain injury or deterioration, developmental delays or disorders, learning disabilities, cerebral palsy, cleft palate, hearing loss or emotional problems. Speech and language disorders can affect an individual’s ability to talk, understand, read and write.
Functional Capacity Evaluation(FCE)An FCE assess an individual’s potential ability to safely perform a physical level of work following an injury or prolonged illness. This testing is useful in determining job placement or job accommodation and assists physicians in determining the extent of impairments or degree of physical disability.
Therapy Works utilizes the ErgoScienceTM FCE system, which was developed through 5 years of scientific research at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and assesses flexibility, strength, balance, coordination, cardiovascular condition and body mechanics.
Specialty programs include:- Manual therapy
- Vestibular rehabilitation
- Wound management
- Pediatric intervention
- Hand therapy, including custom splinting
- Job site visits for job accommodations
- Industrial rehabilitation
- Pre-operative teaching classes
- Biofeedback
- VideoFluoroscopy swallow evaluation (modified barium swallow study)
