Skilled Services
Skilled ServicesTherapy Services
Today, you have the opportunity to blend modern therapeutic equipment, comfort and the latest conveniences with rehabilitation that fulfills your unique health care needs. We rely on an inter-disciplinary approach with our team of physical, occupational and speech therapists. On a grand scale, we recently acquired new state-of-the-art equipment and two specialized aquatic pools from leaders of the active and aging arena in order to exceed our patients’ needs and accelerate the healing process.
Skilled Rehabilitative Services
At Dolphin Pointe Health Care, our patients have expedient access to a full continuum of health care services, including physical, occupational and speech therapy. We’re known for our rehabilitative outcomes that give measurable results. Come to experience advanced care from experienced health professionals in an atmosphere that fosters emotional and physical well-being. We look forward to exceeding your expectations and offer unparalleled programs to enhance life quality.
Other Specialized Programs We Offer
Your injury and conditions that affect the musculoskeletal system — all the bones, joints, ligaments, tendons, muscles, and nerves that keep your body moving is of high concern to us. When dealing with post-surgical orthopedic conditions or current injury, it can be relieving to step into an expert team of orthopedically oriented health professionals that’s dedicated to helping you heal and joyfully recover.
Enhancing heart longevity is goal one. Your program of health education, exercise, training and lifestyle counseling aimed at building heart-healthy lifestyles is personalized therapy at its best. We offer a medically directed program to help our patients recover as fully as possible from any type of cardiac event such heart attack, angina, bypass surgery, coronary stent or valve surgery.
No matter where you are in your recovery journey, there’s always room for more possibilities. Stroke patients can now benefit with therapies geared to overcome limitations and improve capabilities to live life to the fullest potential. There are so many therapeutic ways to assist in your road to recovery and to provide the best opportunity to return to the life that you want to live.
The goal is to promote flexibility and strength and ultimately return you to better function. The unique elements of warm water allow you to comfortably move and strengthen. Using water instead of weights and taking pressure off joints will give outcomes only achieved with hydro-therapy. Our certified aquatic team use two pools with under-water video and treadmills that help you practice and perfect walking and balance capabilities.
Sometimes a chronic lung condition can take away your every breath. The good news is that our close supervision can monitor your oxygen and blood pressure rates. You will be shown better breathing tolerance with every activity. We can help you find a place where you can manage your breath, a place of refreshment and a point that brings you back in control. It’s a systematic approach given by our team of therapists and licensed/certified respiratory practitioners. With pulmonary therapy, everyday people are capable of extraordinary things. Let us show you how. Learn More
Restoring comfort and the joy of movement lost by post-surgical swelling, chronic edema, venous circulation deficiencies and a weakened lymphatic system is one of our specialties. In fact, we are one of the few fully certified teams that have hundreds of additional training hours in order to bring you early detection and sophisticated interventions. We reduce swelling through a protocol system of hands-on therapy that promotes your best results. Learn More
Balance problems are complicated, but they don’t have to be. There are so many tools and diagnostic tests that can simplify the even tenor that comes from the ears, eyes, joints and how they give instant signals to the brain. When this harmonious system is off, we’re here to make things right. Let’s pinpoint the areas that are keeping you from confidence. We will give specific-customized exercises that coordinate all those structures that need an immediate neurological response to help improve your reaction to dynamic movement. Learn More
We listen to our patients who live with issues of urinary incontinence in order to offer many treatment options in a sensitive and healing environment. Everything you couldn’t easily ask can be answered by our specially trained therapists. There are new computer inter-active therapies that can improve weak bladder-pelvic muscles to hasten your return to a better life with newfound control. Learn More
Your safety is our concern and we have the newest inter-active technology and latest techniques to keep you on your feet. Our addition of BioSway, which is a high-tech device that re-trains balance and gait skills through progressive testing and training modes, is a valuable tool for your balance recovery. Our trained and certified team of experienced therapists and their skilled intervention can put you on an improved path.
Finding out how to gain comfort and get relief is important to you and it’s most important to us. The broad range of heat and cold modalities and other components brought by new electrical technologies coupled with our experienced hands-on approach can make a real difference in the daily lives of our patients. Take advantage of our medical insights and our vast array of devices that are geared to help you move forward. Let us assure that you’re not held back by anything, especially pain. Whatever the diagnosis, your worst pain brings out our best efforts. It’s our promise.
Another feature that sets us apart is our wound care services. We are a physician-led team of professionals that provide services to patients with chronic, non-healing wounds. Always looking for a chance to promote healing in the shortest time possible, we team-collaborate on optimum bed surfaces, perform nutritional review for maximum wound health and analyze wheelchair padding, positioning and seating choices.
We use MIST® therapy, one of the most up-to-date treatment techniques given by our specially trained staff. This therapy is a deep healing-comfortable energy used to jump start the wound healing process. The ultrasound waves coupled with sterile saline is applied to wounds to promote the stoppage of harmful bacteria survival and often speeds up recovery.
Physical therapy can foster each patient’s independence and enable functional mobility skills following orthopedic or neurological conditions or injuries. Innovative techniques are used to restore maximum function and minimize pain. Improving range of motion strength, coordination and muscle control will bring you closer to your functional goals.
Speech-language therapy helps patients improve their communication skills in speaking, problem solving, reading, writing, and verbal expressions. Therapists also provide evaluation and treatment for a variety of swallowing disorders.
Occupational therapy focuses on achieving greater independence in the activities of daily living such as bathing, dressing and eating following an illness or injury. To promote maximum function and mobility, our therapists use rehabilitation techniques and train residents in the use of specialized equipment.