The MaineHealth rehabilitation care team includes occupational therapists, physical therapists and speech therapists. Our goal is to help people regain independence following illness, injury or surgery.
Expert rehabilitation care, close to home
We are dedicated to helping people improve, maintain and restore their physical strength, cognition and function. We work with patients, family and caregivers through treatment, training and education.
Our Services
Occupational therapy (OT) helps people of all ages live life to its fullest despite illness, injury or disability. Treatment is focused on activities of daily living (bathing, dressing, feeding); home management; safety; and upper extremity range-of-motion, strength and function.
Our Services
- Activities of daily living (ADLs)/ home management training
- Recommendations for adaptive equipment and training
- Hand, wrist, elbow and shoulder dysfunction
- Custom static/dynamic splinting for the hand and wrist
- Cognitive retraining
- Energy conservation and work simplification training with cardio/pulmonary patients
- Pre-operative teaching classes for shoulder surgeries
- Lymphedema Therapy
Physical therapy is movement and exercise-based treatment that addresses your specific health condition and helps you achieve your functional goals. Physical therapists have extensive knowledge of the body and are experts in movement analysis. Physical therapy can help you:
- Restore function
- Manage your pain
- Improve balance and reduce fear of falling
- Improve mobility
- Increase strength
- Manage chronic conditions
- Regain movement after surgery
Our Services
- Restoring range of motion and strength
- Balance training
- Fall prevention
- Vestibular therapy
- Neurological rehabilitation
- Assistive device training
- Pre-operative teaching classes for total joint candidates
Commonly Treated Conditions
- Hip, knee and shoulder joint pain and weakness
- Balance impairments
- Concussion management
- Orthopedic conditions & injuries
- Pain management
- Back pain, spine and neck disorders
- Hypermobility disorders
- Parkinson's Disease
- Stroke
- Post-surgery rehab
- Vestibular impairments
Speech therapy assesses, diagnoses and treats developmental and acquired disorders of speech, language, cognitive-communication, voice, swallowing and fluency.
Our Services
- Modified barium swallow evaluations
- Cognitive assessment/retraining
- Aphasia assessments
- Augmented communication
- Voice training/articulation
- Swallowing dysfunction treatment
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