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Our Physical Therapy Program is designed to address neurological, orthopedic and rheumatologic conditions, as well as other injuries and illnesses. Our Physical Therapy Team emphasizes balance, gait, transfer training, safety, coordination and strengthening, and pain management in an effort to help patients/residents achieve their highest levels of functional mobility. Our Physical Therapists are also involved in wheelchair assessment and mobility as well as wound care and prevention.

Services include:

• Gait transfer training
• Posture and body mechanics
• Therapeutic exercise and activity for restoration of strength, endurance and mobility
• Ambulation and use of assistive devices
• Wound care
• Electrical stimulation, ultrasound and shortwave diathermy

Our Occupational Therapy Program focuses on improving our patients/residents’ skills in the Activities of Daily Living (ADLs). Therapists work with patients/residents to maximize their potential for re-learning basic living skills such as eating, dressing, bathing, toileting, and cooking. Our Therapists help our patients/residents learn to cope with losses in ADL and physical functioning, through the use of therapeutic exercise and activity.

Services include:

• Activity of Daily Living (ADL) Retraining
• Wheelchair seating and positioning to maximum functioning and mobility
• Functional cognitive and perceptual retraining
• Contracture management and splint
• Incontinence program and home safety assessment
• Safety training
• Use of adaptive equipment

Our Speech Therapy Program assists patients/residents in adapting and compensating to overcome problems with speech, hearing, comprehension, expression or swallowing. Speech Therapists can evaluate, plan and conduct treatment for speech deficits, voice problems, hearing and word pronunciation, difficulties to help patients/residents better express their needs and improve communication. Therapists work as a team with Dietary Department to address and improve feeding and swallowing concerns.

Services include:

• Voice Therapy and Language Skills Assessments
• Development of Communication Devices
• Management of Dysphasia and Swallowing Problems
• Auditory and Visual Comprehension
• Oral Motor Training
• Dietary Consultation

Moving Forward

Anti-Gravity Treadmill® gives geriatric patients and their physical therapists the confidence to take a larger step forward in their therapy than previously possible. By incorporating our rehab treadmills in their clinics, physical therapists can:

• Safely improve patients’ mobility, and as a result, increase independence during day-to-day activities and improve wellness.
• Provide a fall-safe environment, giving elderly patients the confidence to walk further, faster, and with a more normal gait.
• Reduce patient discomfort and risk of injury, as well as hesitancy during walking Mobility with Confidence.

By increasing patients’ mobility and confidence, the Anti-Gravity Treadmill can provide the key to greater independence and improve quality of life for patients in skilled nursing facilities.

Take Therapy Further

The key to successful therapy is providing stability, confidence and recognizable progress. The AlterG Anti-Gravity Treadmill provides all three by:

• Allowing therapists to help patients take more steps, walk longer and faster, and conduct balancing exercises in a safe setting
• Ensuring a fall safe environment while improving mobility and strength
• Achieving greater wellness, independence and safety in elderly rehabilitation and long term care

Quality of care for quality of life.

With AlterG's revolutionary, unweighting rehab treadmill, skilled nursing facilities can help patients improve their mobility and strength in a fall safe environment. And with it, patients experience greater freedom, independence, overall wellness, and as a result, an improved quality of life.

Stride Smart: Precision Unweighting + Gait Analytics

Now you can integrate gait and video analytics into therapy to identify asymmetry and gait deficiencies, and precisely dial-in the body weight support needed to enable pain-free, normalized gait. Achieving the optimal rehab program for your patient has never been easier.

The new Stride Smart system provides you with objective data and visual monitoring for both patients and clinicians. Now you’re able to optimize recovery after injury or surgery or help your athletes prevent injuries by using data.

Instant Feedback, Better Results with Video Monitoring

Show your patients what they can’t feel. Take advantage of our improved video system, now with recording capabilities. Show your patients their gait in real-time, or record clips, play back in slow motion, or save for your patients records.

Key Gait Metrics for Your Rehab Program

By adding objective data measurements to AlterG’s Anti-Gravity technology, you can now quantify the impact of varying body weight percentages on gait symmetry and cadence to help your patients achieve success. Stride Smart will measure:

• Weight bearing symmetry
• Cadence
• Step length symmetry
• Stance time symmetry

Ask the Willow Crest Team to see if you would be a candidate for The AlterG