Designing Your PD Rehabilitation Program
Our team at the Southeastern Center for Parkinson Disease evaluates every patient’s strengths and abilities, then develops a unique, personalized plan to restore physical independence. Our care plans address everything from walking and balance therapy to leisure skills and self-care, as well as meal planning, driving and social and financial services. We work with several top-flight rehab organizations including Sarasota Memorial Healthcare System to provide a myriad of rehabilitation services; ensuring that the plan we design for you will be just what the doctor ordered.
Care includes:
Care includes:
- Mobility training
- Functional strength and endurance
- Movement control
- Balance and coordination activities
- Flexibility
- Transfer skills
- Walking and balance training
- Seating and positioning for wheelchair use
- Wheelchair mobility skills
- Self-care training: Eating, Grooming, Bathing, Dressing, Toileting
- Independent living skills
- Meal planning and preparation
- Money management
- Transportation
- Community re-entry skills
- Equipment and training
- Prescriptions for adaptive medical equipment and devices including custom orthotics and prosthetics
- Home accessibility and safety recommendations
- Nutrition and swallowing management
- Nutritional health assessment and diet counseling
- Swallowing assessment and management
- Returning to leisure
- Leisure education and skills
- Training in community-related activities
- Community resource development
- Returning to work or school
- Advice on Americans with Disabilities Act rights
- Referrals for vocational rehabilitation services
- Counseling for goals, resources and rights
- Team focus on work and school goals
- Speech-language interventions
- Comprehension Verbal and written expression
- Voice, articulation, intelligibility
- Alternative methods of communication
- Cognitive testing and management
- Attention and concentration skills
- Memory and learning
- Problem-solving skills
- Counseling Therapy for adjustment to illness or injury
- Techniques for pain and stress management Information and resources for questions about sexual functioning
- Social services
- Financial issues
- Housing
- Community agency referrals