Program Goal
To provide opportunities for persons with spasticity to improve purposeful movement and physical functioning.
Treatment Options
- Tone Reduction Techniques
- Oral Medications
- Motor Point Block Procedures
- Intrathecal Pump
- Rhizotomy
Specialty Services
- Initial and ongoing evaluation of the patient's medical and functional status.
- Physiatrist (physical medicine and rehabilitation physicians) specially trained in all aspects of spasticity management and therapeutic intervention
- Specialty physician consultation based on needs of the patient.
- Specifically trained interdisciplinary team members, including: rehabilitation nursing, physical therapy
and occupational therapy
- Orthotics Consultations
Program Features
- Comprehensive inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation services
- Individualized treatment plans
- Therapeutic functional training
- Intrathecal pump screening and maintenance therapy
- Therapy administered by clinicians experienced in physical rehabilitation
- Focus on improving function in mobility, activities of daily living, psychosocial adjustment and community access
- Patient and family education and counseling
- Post discharge follow-up and support
