The skilled and licensed therapists of the Spalding University Comprehensive Outpatient Rehabilitation Facility (CORF) provide individualized treatment plans to best meet the needs of both adult and child patients.
Patient care is provided in a team effort of rehabilitation specialists whose combined experience and skill ensure that each patient—both adult and adolescent—has the best care possible. Our services include:
Physical Therapy Services
Physical therapy services at Spalding CORF provide both children and adults the opportunity to maximize their independence. Our services facilitate patients’ overall physical adjustment following injury or illness in order to improve strength and mobility, to regain scope of activity, and to improve quality of life.
Therapists offer patient assessments, treatment planning and follow-up for both individual and group treatment. Our therapists focus on these general areas:
- Back pain
- Shoulder Pain
- Hip Pain
- Upper Extremity Strains and Sprains
- Overuse syndromes
- Workman’s Compensation Injuries
- Post-surgical Orthopedic Conditions
- Functional Movement Screening
- Sport Rehabilitation
- Dry Needling
- Joint mobility
- Arthritis
- Knee Injury
- Tendonitis
- Pain management
- Motor function and strength
Occupational Therapy Services
Occupational therapists at Spalding CORF work with both adults and children to achieve optimum functioning to prevent disability, to maintain health and to develop skills that are important for independent living. Our therapists provide assessments, treatment plans and follow-up for each patient’s rehabilitation. Areas of treatment focus on increasing patients’ participation in and reducing environmental barriers in these areas:
Areas of Occupational Performance:
- Activities of Daily Living
- Work Activities
- Community mobility
- Play or leisure activities
Performance Components:
- Sensory and Motor Performance
- First Steps Provider
- Pain Management
- Deep Physical Agents and Modalities
- Cognitive Integration
- Psycho-Social skills
- Fall prevention
- Home assessments
- Ergonomic assessments
- Handwriting assessments
- Functional Capacity Evaluations
- TARC3 Assessments for Services
- Work Conditioning
- LSVT BIG certified to treat Parkinson’s Disease
Speech-Language Pathology Services
Speech-language pathologists specialize in evaluating, diagnosing and treating adults, children, and adolescents with communication and swallowing disorders. The Spalding CORF treats patients with:
- AAC evaluations and assessments for children and adults
- Assist in access to play and cognitive development through assistive technology
- Assistive technology solutions for participation in academic skills
- First Steps Provider
- Speech-related problems
- Swallowing Impairments
- Voice disorders
- Speech-Language disorders
- Neurological conditions
- Stuttering
- Hearing disorders
- Autism
- Social skills development
- LSVT LOUD certified to treat patients with Parkinson’s disease
- Assist individuals who use their voices professionally
Social Work Services
The Spalding CORF acknowledges the many non-physical concerns that may limit a patient’s recovery and full rehabilitation. We view patients and their needs with a holistic lens so that their rehabilitation process can be maximized. To that end, we offer case management services to all clients. These services are provided or supervised by members of Spalding University’s Kosair Charities College of Health and Natural Sciences social work faculty.
We ensure:
- Client focused and team-driven care designed to support the patients and their therapists through completion of all collaborative goals
- A direct response to addressing barriers to treatment for both the client and their family
- A systemic approach to addressing barrier issues including financial, support, and access concerns
- One-on-one assessments to assure each patient is connected to the resources necessary for maximizing rehabilitation goal achievement and additional meetings are provided on an individual basis as deemed appropriate.