Owensboro Health Healthpark Physical, Occupational & Speech Therapy

Services and treatments provided at this location include:

• Adaptive equipment training for dressing, bathing and feeding
• Certified LSVT BIG and PWR moves for Parkinson's treatment
• Certified Lymphedema treatment
• Fine/Gross motor education for functional tasks
• Neurological rehabilitation (Ex. Stroke, CVA, Traumatic Brain Injury, Spinal Cord Injury, Multiple Sclerosis)
• Upper body range of motion and strength

If an injury or illness has caused a physical limitation or loss of function, outpatient physical therapy can offer a personalized treatment plan to restore your health, wellness, and performance. Many techniques are used with the goals of decreasing pain or stiffness and increasing strength, flexibility, and function. Physical therapists help their patients to adapt to assistive devices and provide education to help you manage your physical condition.

Services and treatments provided at this location include:

• Aquatic therapy (Bad Ragaz and Watsu)
• Balance and fall prevention training
• Blood flow restriction training (BFR)
• Dry needling
• Hand therapy, including custom splinting (Certified Hand Therapist)
• Joint mobilization and manipulation
• Lymphedema (Certified OT)
• Neurological and stroke rehabilitation
• Orthopedic conditions including joint replacements
• Parkinson’s/LSVT “Big”, PWR moves program
• Pelvic rehabilitation
• Soft tissue mobilization and cupping
• Sports medicine therapy (including FMS and Y balance testing)
• Vestibular and post-concussion therapy

If injury or illness has caused a limitation or loss of function, outpatient speech therapy can offer a personalized treatment plan to restore your communication, cognition, and swallowing to maximize quality of life. Speech therapists help patients meet their full potential for safety and independence through individualized treatment plans tailored to each patient’s needs and goals.

Services provided at this location include:

• Swallowing
  • FEES (Fiberoptic Endoscopic Evaluation of Swallowing)
  • VFSS (Video Fluoroscopic Swallow Study)
  • NMES (Neuromuscular electrical stimulation)
  • MDTP certified clinicians (McNeil Dysphagia Therapy Program)
• Voice: To help individuals with a variety of voice disorders including:
  • Vocal nodules or polyps
  • Vocal cord dysfunction or paralysis
  • Chronic cough / irritable larynx syndrome
  • Resonance disorders
  • Hyperfunctional or hypofunctional voice
• LSVT certified clinicians (Lee Silverman Voice Therapy for Parkinson’s)
• Cognition: Strategies to improve cognitive functioning or compensations to increase independence/safety with memory, attention, problem solving, reasoning, and sequencing
• Rehabilitation from stroke, brain injury, neuromuscular disorder, or progressive diseases (ALS, MS, MG, dementia, GBS, MSA, Parkinson’s, brain tumors, etc.)
• Language – expressive/receptive (aphasia)
• Dysarthria: Improve articulation through intervention to improve function and compensatory strategies
• Apraxia
• Laryngectomy
  • Presurgical: prepare patient for changes
  • Post surgery: electrolarynx training
  • TEP (voice prosthesis) management
• Tracheostomy
  • Education on changes
  • Changing TEPs and education
  • Aid in obtaining HMEs and materials
• Head and Neck Cancer: Aiding in changes to voice and swallowing as result of surgery or radiation
• Speech Generating Device: AAC (alternative augmentative communication device) to aid in communication