Rehabilitation Services
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| 45-545 Kamehameha Highway. Kaneohe,
Hawaii. 96744. | Tel: (808)
247-2220 Fax: (808) 235-3676
Our Rehabilitation
Services are provided by Sundance Rehabilitation and are
available to each of our residents. We offer a wide range of
services to meet the individual needs of each resident. Goals are
established with the physicians, facility team members, resident and
families to return the resident to their highest level of function
possible.
We offer:
√ Physical Therapy
√ Occupational Therapy
√ Speech Therapy
Physical Therapy:
Physical therapy is treatment to restore
function and maximize independence with all skills that require
movement. The resident's physician must order the therapy.
The resident is then evaluated and a treatment plan is begun.
Resident usually receive physical therapy when they:
√ Are experiencing pain
√ Are experiencing falls
√ Have decreased endurance or decline in balance due to
fractures, strokes, joint replacement, cardiac
conditions, or overall deconditioning related to a medical decline.
Occupational Therapy:
Occupational therapy is treatment to help residents to achieve
their highest possible functioning level of performing activities of
daily living such as eating, dressing, toileting, bathing, and grooming
or home management. Residents are trained to:
√ Utilize adaptive equipment
√ Perform exercises for strengthening or improving joint movement
√ Increase independence in self-care and
home management
Speech Therapy:
Speech therapy
helps to improve a
resident's communication, cognition, and swallowing skills. Services include
direct therapeutic treatment, staff consultation, and family counseling.
Residents are carefully evaluated and placed on treatment programs that
help them:
√ Identify strategies to help them remember past and upcoming events
√ Organize information to ease decision making
√ Keep oriented to person, place, and time
√ Understand and train the muscles used for swallowing so they can safely eat and drink
√ Make decisions
√ Ease in word finding
√ Speaking clearly
