Outpatient Rehabilitation

Our individualized physical therapy treatment services help optimize muscle control, balance, flexibility and mobility; they also build strength and endurance.

Our highly-trained physical therapists evaluate and treat the complex physical and functional challenges that result from spinal cord, orthopedic or brain injury, stroke, amputation, a musculoskeletal condition or neurologic disorder.

Our goal is to help you feel better physically while making sure you’re comfortable and an active partner throughout your physical therapy treatment. Our experienced clinical team will work diligently to get to the core of your injury or condition to help you recover and stay healthy.

In occupational therapy, we help you develop the skills required for basic everyday life and ultimately, work. Our occupational therapists use a patient-centered approach to address functional, cognitive and visual weaknesses. We employ evidence-based techniques and advanced technologies — functional electrical stimulation and virtual reality — to help you achieve as much independence as possible.

Our therapists develop custom treatment plans that meet your individual needs following neurologic injuries such as stroke or traumatic brain injury as well as limb loss, orthopedic and medically complex conditions.

If you are experiencing problems with communication, language, cognition and swallowing, you may benefit from the speech therapy services and specialized attention offered at California Rehabilitation Institute. Our certified speech-language pathologists diagnose and treat a wide variety of disorders resulting from stroke, brain injury, cancer or neurological conditions, including Parkinson's disease and multiple sclerosis.

Speech therapy usually involves individual training and education to help you overcome or compensate for any difficulties. Our speech professionals have experience in treating a wide spectrum of disorders, including:

• Aphasia – Impaired or absent comprehension and/or communication skills that result from an injury to the brain's language center. Aphasia can apply to spoken or written words and numbers and is most commonly associated with stroke and brain injury.
• Apraxia – An inability to execute purposeful, coordinated body movements even though muscular strength and mental capacity remain intact.
• Dysarthria – Difficulty in articulating words due to a disturbance in the central nervous system. Speech is characteristically slow and slurred. It is commonly associated with stroke and traumatic brain injury. Treatment involves intensive speech therapy focusing on oral-motor skill development.
• Dysphagia – Limited ability to swallow food, liquids and even saliva due to muscle weakness or paralysis. Dysphagia is most commonly associated with stroke, traumatic brain injury or spinal cord injury. While eating or drinking, individuals may experience mild to severe difficulties such as coughing, choking or throat-clearing.
• Cognitive impairment – Usually results from brain injury or a stroke and typically causes difficulty with attention to tasks, memory, reasoning, problem solving and executive functioning, such as goal setting, planning, initiating, self-awareness, self-monitoring and evaluation.
• Voice disorders – Disorders characterized by the abnormal production and/or absence of vocal quality, pitch, loudness, resonance and/or duration, which is inappropriate for an individual’s age and/or gender.

Across the United States, hundreds of thousands of people have been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Many individuals are also compromised by a variety of acute and chronic conditions, such as emphysema, after effects of the flu and cardiovascular disease.

Recovering from COVID-19, or other debilitating illnesses and conditions, may leave you with varying levels of deconditioning and weakness making it difficult to resume your activities and routine. We understand this is a scary and challenging time. Our compassionate team of clinical experts can help you continue to heal through our Recovery and Reconditioning Program.

California Rehabilitation Institute’s comprehensive program will help you with:

• Balance and stability
• Cardiac issues
• Consequences of clotting disorders, including stroke and amputation
• Cognitive or memory impairments
• Decreased endurance and limited breathing capability
• Dizziness or vertigo
• Functional mobility and activities of daily living issues
• General fatigue
• Musculoskeletal pain and soreness
• Range of motion limitations
• Weakness

Why is therapy important?

Our Recovery and Reconditioning Program was developed in partnership with leading physicians, including physiatrists, infectious disease specialists and physical and occupational therapists. It focuses on identifying key areas of physical weakness in patients recovering from COVID-19 as well as other illnesses and conditions. Our licensed physical, occupational and speech-language therapists will develop a plan of care tailored to your specific needs and goals.

Throughout care, we will monitor your vital signs and symptoms to ensure your safety. Working together, we will increase your tolerance based on activities so you can start to get back to the things that you enjoy.

In-person appointments will follow CDC, state as well as our own clinical guidelines to ensure safety while progressing toward your goals. We also follow CDC, state and local guidelines specific to hand hygiene, disinfecting and wearing masks.

Our goal is to help you feel better physically while making sure you’re comfortable and an active partner throughout your treatment.

California Rehabilitation Institute staff are experienced and specialized in the assessment and treatment of those with neurological conditions. Several of our staff hold board-certified specialization in neurological physical therapy and are certified in the provision of neurological rehabilitative techniques. Our staff are experienced in treating traumatic, acquired and progressive neurologic injuries, including traumatic brain injury, stroke, spinal cord injury, Guillain-Barré syndrome, multiple sclerosis and Parkinson's disease.

Our outpatient clinic offers access to specialized rehabilitation technology, including:

• Body weight-supported treadmill training and electrical stimulation devices to improve balance, gait and walking
• Computer-based exercises to improve memory, concentration, decision-making and other cognitive skills
• Functional electrical stimulation for neuromuscular re-education
• Platforms to help individuals return to activities of daily living, including the Virtualis VR virtual reality system and the Biodex Balance System