Rehabilitation and Therapy

About Us

AU Health's rehabilitation team collaborates closely with interdisciplinary professionals throughout our hospital, working with you, your family, and your physicians to set individual rehabilitation goals and design the best care plan for your needs. 

Patients come to us for:

• Balance and vestibular disorders
• Cognitive impairments
• Cognitive disorders (awareness, attention, memory, and reasoning skills)
• Fluency difficulties
• Gait impairments and imbalances
• Head and neck cancers
• Language disorders (verbal expression, comprehension, reading and writing)
• Low vision impairments
• Lymphedema or lipedema issues
• Orthopedic injuries
• Pain
• Pelvic health
• Post-operative rehab following surgery
• Neurological diagnoses (stroke, Parkinson’s, brain injury, spinal cord injury, multiple sclerosis, muscular dystrophy, and others)
• Swallowing problems (dysphagia)
• Speech disorders
• Trauma
• Voice disorders

Did you know?

Adult rehabilitation also provides specialized services to patients for:

• Augmentative and alternative communication devices: We work with patients that need computer devices to supplement or replace speaking.
• Mechanical diagnosis and therapy: A comprehensive assessment and treatment method that identifies the best movement patterns to decrease mechanical pain.
• Modified barium swallow studies: We take an x-ray of a patient swallowing to view muscle mechanisms that may not be working. Recommendations are made for appropriate techniques, exercises, or diet changes to help improve swallowing.
• Return-to-sport testing: Data-driven strength and agility testing to determine the readiness and confidence of a patient to be able to return to their sport.
  
• Wheelchair assessments: We offer evaluations to patients requiring assistive mobility equipment. Our physical therapists work with wheelchair vendors to ensure optimal fitting for comfort, providing patients with safer mobility to function in their home environment.