Stroke Program
The Stroke Program provides comprehensive rehabilitation for individuals with strokes.
Types of Difficulties
- Weakness or paresis
- Typically affects one side of the body
- Swallowing difficulty
- Decreased balance/instability
- Decreased ability to coordinate movement
- Decreased ability to feel
- Touch
- Pain
- Position
- Loss of bowel and bladder function
- Problems understanding and using language
- Problems with thinking and memory
- Emotional disturbances
Highlights of Our Stroke Services
- Therapy provided by a multidisciplinary team including:
- Sabo Flex, which assists with relearning to use the affected upper extremity
- Vital Stim, which assists with relearning to swallow
- Neuro-Developmental Treatment, a specialized approach for treating hemiplegia
- Health management including nutrition, skin, bowel and bladder problems, and self-medication administration programs
- Mobility Training
- Activities of Daily Living Training (bathing, grooming, eating, cooking, etc)
- Adaptive equipment assessments
- Cognitive re-training (memory, problem solving, reasoning, etc)
- Psychological support for patient and family
- Community re-entry
- Patient and family education
- Discharge planning
- Links to websites
Patient Resources