Physical Therapy
Physical therapists provide treatments for people who have had a stroke or a head injury to restore movement and improve function.
Physical therapists are movement experts. They improve quality of life through hands-on care, patient education, and prescribed movement.
Speech Therapy
Speech therapy may include standardized assessment of cognition after a stroke or a head injury. From these results, speech language pathologists will provide recommendations for school or work accommodations, train strategies to compensate for memory or attention difficulties, and provide specialized tools to improve executive functioning skills such as organization, time management, and reading comprehension.
Occupational Therapy
Occupational Therapists are often part of the treatment team for people who have experienced a stroke. OT uses a comprehensive approach, treating the whole person and all of the areas which may have been impacted including:
Recreation/leisure skills,
Work skills
Driving skills
Rehabilitate your arm/hand if it has been impacted by weakness or incoordination.
OT also offers education during recovery, including task modification for activities that have become difficult, offering suggestions for simple equipment which may help make tasks easier during recovery, and offering education for ways to conserve energy and maximize independent function.
OT also addresses skills including:
Self-care skills (dressing, bathing, grooming, eating),
Life-skills (organizing, thinking, money/time management, work, and leisure)
Fine-motor skills, strength and
Activity tolerance.