Therapy Services

Fellowship Village provides therapy to restore residents to their normal lifestyle. Services by our qualified, experienced therapists are available upon referral from a resident's physician. Depending on the individual’s needs, a rehab stay could be as short as two weeks or up to three months.

Therapists specialize in Physical, Occupational, and Speech Therapy services. Each plays a specific role in a resident’s recovery.

To assure a safe transition, therapists visit the resident's home and make safety recommendations. With the resident and family present, several living skills are assessed during the visit including cooking, bathing, doing laundry, using stairs, taking medications, and being mobile around the home.

Physical Therapy

Physical therapy is the evaluation and treatment of injuries or impairments in order to prevent, correct, minimize or alleviate physical injury. Physical therapy may utilize physical agents such as mechanical devices, heat, cold, light, water, electricity, ultrasound, therapeutic exercises, and rehabilitative procedures to restore patients to their maximum level of function. Physical Therapists help to maximize independence and safety along with ensuring comfort and optimal strength.

Services offered:

• Orthopedic rehabilitation
• Rehab following surgery
• Stroke rehabilitation
• Balance and fall prevention therapy
• Manual therapy techniques
• Home exercise programs
• Gait analysis and training
• Orthotic and prosthetic training
• Home visits
• Wound care treatment, including surgical incisions, burns, and chronic open wounds
• Education and training for patients and family

Our Physical Therapy staff is led by Kristen Goodroad.
 

Massage Therapy

Enjoy a weekly massage by a licensed Massage Therapist.  Massage has been found to have the following benefits:

• Helps relieve stress and aids relaxation
• Helps relieve muscle tension and stiffness
• Reduces pain and swelling
• Reduces muscle spasms
• Provides greater joint flexibility and range of motion
• Promotes deeper and easier breathing
• Improves circulation of blood and movement of lymph fluids
• Reduces blood pressure
• Helps relieve tension-related headaches and effects of eye-strain
• Enhances the health and nourishment of skin
• Improves posture
• Strengthens the immune system
• Treats musculoskeletal problems

Occupational Therapy

Occupational therapy is a health care service that provides assistance to individuals whose ability to function in daily life has been disrupted by physical illness or injury, development problems, or the aging process.

Occupational Therapists work with people of all ages who, because of physical, developmental, social, or emotional deficits, need specialized assistance in learning skills to enable them to lead independent, productive and satisfying lives.

Occupational Therapy (OT) focuses on activities of daily living. These activities include bathing, dressing, grooming, and functional transfers as well as job related tasks, driving skills, and skills for home and money management. In addition, OT addresses the components that factor into the performance of these activities including vision, perception, attention, cognition, upper extremity strength, coordination and range of motion, and balance and transfers from a functional viewpoint.

Our Occupational Therapist works with each patient to design a customized rehabilitation program that will suit individual needs and abilities. Our goal is to maximize function as soon as possible, following an injury, disease or surgery.

Our OT staff is led by Jolayn Coquyt. 

Restorative Therapy

Available to both short-term and long-term residents, restorative therapy combines rehabilitation and nursing skills. It includes range of motion exercises, walking, stretching, and assistance with daily living activities (i.e. getting dressed). This program helps residents retain their level of functioning, restore their independence, and enhance their quality of life. Specialy trained C.N.As deliver the resident's program, provide care, and monitor progression. Oversight is provided by the Director of Nursing and close communication is maintained with the rehabilitation department to ensure optimal goals are reached for each resident.

Our Restorative Nursing team is led by LaRae Erickson. 

Speech Therapy

Speech therapy includes evaluation and treatment of various communication and/or swallowing disorders. Clinical methods vary depending on the nature of the problem, the age of the individual and the individual's awareness of the problem. Some causes of speech and language disorders are related to hearing loss, stroke, neuromuscular disorders, head injury, viral diseases, physical impairments, etc.

Speech and language pathologists provide the following specialized professional services:

• Swallowing treatment/management
• Assisting people with voice, stuttering or articulation disorders
• Assisting people with aphasia and re-learning language and speech skills, including reading and writing
• Memory/orientation improvement, or teaching ways to compensate
• Augmentative communication devices, education and training