Rehabilitation Services
Steele Therapy Connections
At Steele Therapy Connections, our mission is to improve the health and wellbeing of our community through excellence in rehabilitation, collaboration, and the promotion of wellness. STC offers cardio-pulmonary, physical, occupational, and speech therapy services in both inpatient and outpatient settings. Our goal is a seamless transition of care from inpatient acute care to outpatient and full recovery. Often the therapists will begin working with you on the day of surgery and throughout your hospital stay. After discharge from the hospital, therapy continues on an outpatient basis. When you have reached your therapy goals, the final phase is to maintain the gains you achieved by participating in Able and Stable.
Physical Therapy
Physical Therapy is the the treatment of disease, injury, or deformity by physical methods such as massage, heat treatment, and exercise rather than by drugs or surgery, with a goal to restore movement and function to people disabled by disease or injury.
Medical conditions treated include:
- Arthritis
- Back pain
- Bladder or bowel dysfunction
- Brain injury
- Cancer
- Cerebral palsy
- Dysphagia
- Fibromyalgia
- Lymphedema
- Multiple sclerosis
- Muscular dystrophy
- Musculoskeletal injuries
- Osteoporosis
- Parkinson's disease
- Pelvic floor issues
- Spinal cord injury
- Sports related injuries
- Stroke
- Vestibular/balance disorders
- Work-related injuries
Pediatric Physical Therapy
Pediatric physical therapists (PTs) work with children and their families to assist each child in reaching their maximum potential to function independently and to promote active participation in home, school, and community environments.
Pediatric physical therapists may use evidence-informed practice to provide any of the following services as part of their goal-directed plan of care:
- Developmental activities
- Movement and mobility
- Strengthening
- Motor learning
- Balance and coordination
- Recreation, play, and leisure
- Daily care activities and routines
- Tone management
- Posture, positioning, and lifting
- Orthotics and prosthetics
- Pain management
Occupational Therapy
The focus is on maximizing functional independence in individuals with:
- orthopedic conditions requiring adaptive equipment,
- congenital or acquired disease, or
- neurologic disorders.
Treatment includes:
- exercise instruction,
- individualized home programs,
- patient education about joint conservation or energy conservation, and
- recommendations for layout at home or work to maximize safety, independence and accessibility.
Pediatric Occupational Therapy
is available for children with:
- Autism related disorders
- Sensory-motor disorders
- ADD/ADHD
- Developmental disabilities
- Down Syndrome and other genetic diagnoses
- Cerebral Palsy and other neurological diagnoses
- Traumatic brain injury
- Delays in fine motor and visual motor skills directly affecting academic performance
Children may benefit from pediatric occupational therapy for:
- Self-care skills including feeding, dressing, and grooming
- Hand strengthening and coordination skills required for activities such as cutting with scissors, coloring, and writing, buttoning, using feeding utensils, etc.
- Sensory-motor processing and integration
- Recommendation, training, and use of adaptive equipment
- Neurodevelopmental treatment
- Visual motor and handwriting skills
Speech Therapy
Speech language pathologists work with people of all ages, from babies to adults. They treat many types of communication and swallowing problems including but not limited to:
- Cognitive communication
- Feeding and swallowing
- Fluency/Stuttering
- Language
- Literacy
- Social communication
- Speech sounds
- Voice
Cardiopulmonary Services
Therapists offer a variety of programs including supervised exercise therapy (SET) for patients with peripheral artery disease, tobacco cessation counseling, COPD treatment, pulmonary function testing, outpatient pulmonary rehabilitation. inpatient and emergency respiratory care, cardiac event monitoring, outpatient cardiac rehabilitation, Holter monitoring, and 30 day cardiac event monitoring.
Chronic Pain Management
The newest therapy program we offer at Steele Therapy Connections. The focus of this program is for patients who suffer from chronic pain with the goal of increasing function without the use of pain medications.
For more information about services offered through the Rehabilitation department, please call 208-756-5631.