Rehabilitation care after injury or surgery
Understanding how to recover from your injury or after surgery helps improve your overall health. Our rehabilitation care team is here to help. We offer outpatient therapy appointments, with flexible hours around your work or school schedule. In Florida, a doctor’s referral may be required if you are seeking therapy for injury prevention or fitness.
When a health condition has a long-term recovery plan or chronic pain affects your physical and emotional health, we’re here to help. Physical medicine and rehabilitation specialists at Ascension Sacred Heart Rehabilitation Gulf, in Port St. Joe, FL, help you manage your pain and improve your ability to do daily activities. Working together, physical therapists, occupational therapists and speech-language pathologists provide therapies to help improve the communication between your brain, muscles and nerves. We start by listening to understand you and your health concerns. Then, we work with you to create a recovery care plan that’s right for you.
Your doctor may prescribe physical, occupational or speech therapy as part of your treatment plan. At Ascension Sacred Heart Rehabilitation - Port St. Joe, our therapists listen to understand you and your health concerns. Then, we work with you to create a rehabilitation care plan that’s right for you. Physical therapy helps promote healing, relieve aches and pains, and restore your strength, mobility and balance. Occupational therapy helps promote your activities of daily living. Speech therapy helps promote cognitive and communication skills as well as treats language, voice or swallowing disorders.
Our rehabilitation clinic offers personalized therapies by licensed therapists who treat orthopedic, brain and spine conditions, balance disorders, and sports injuries. We offer physical therapy, occupational therapy, and speech therapy services. Many of our therapists are also certified in specialized therapy programs, including (but not limited to):
- Balance disorders
- Cancer treatment recovery
- Communication impairments
- Swallowing disorders
- Cognitive and memory deficits
- Geriatric rehabilitation and exercise programs
- Hand, wrist, and elbow therapy
- Splinting
- Instrument assisted soft tissue mobilization
- Joint replacement recovery, hip and knee replacement
- Post surgical rehabilitation
- Adaptive therapy after amputation
- Neurorehabilitation for stroke, brain and spine care
- Parkinson's program including LSVT BIG
- Sports injury orthopedic rehabilitation
- Swallowing disorders
- Vestibular therapy (VRT)
- Pediatric rehabilitation (physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy)