Strive! Physical Therapy Maricamp Road Center
The Maricamp Road Center is a 4,500 square foot outpatient facility that specializes in orthopaedics, occupational health, hand therapy, and sports medicine. The clinical staff consists of two Physical Therapists, three Occupational Therapists, and two Certified Hand Therapists.
Physical therapy is the treatment of illness and injury by "physical" means including movement, exercise and joint mobilization. Therapists also use heat and cold, water (whirlpool baths), sound (ultrasonic vibrations), electricity (muscle stimulator, intermittent traction, massage, and paraffin bath). Physical therapy is an integral part of the healing process for patients who have experienced acute injury, undergone surgery, or for those with chronic or progressively degenerative conditions. Other conditions treated with physical therapy include spinal cord injuries (paraplegia, quadriplegia), burns, ulcers, amputations, various forms of neuritis, and skin diseases such as psoriasis and scleroderma. The physical therapists work closely with physicians, nursing services, and other practitioners in providing the best possible program for each patient.
The main objectives of physical therapy are:
Evaluate injuries, dysfunction
Relieve pain
Promote the healing process
Improve or maintain a body function
Prevent secondary complications of an injury or disability
Restore function, strength, mobility, and/or coordination.
Rehabilitate each patient to the optimal degree possible.
Many conditions respond favorably to physical therapy. Among the most common conditions treated are:
Degenerative conditions - those affecting joints and locomotion - such as osteoarthritis
Fractures, dislocations
Muscle and soft tissue injuries
Inflammatory conditions such as bursitis, tendonitis, etc.
Chronic diseases/dysfunction such as multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, chronic low back pain.
Neurological injuries/conditions
Wounds
Circulatory conditions/disorders
Occupational therapy is the application of skilled treatment in order to help individuals achieve independence in their lives. Occupational therapy gives people the skills necessary to lead satisfying lifestyles. Services include:
Treatment programs customized to help improve abilities to facilitate activities of daily living
Home and job environment evaluations and recommendations for adaptation needs
Performance skills assessment and treatments
Adaptive equipment recommendation and training to replace loss of function
Family member and attendant instruction in safe and effective means of caring for individuals
Occupational therapists are skilled professionals whose education includes the study of human growth and development. Emphasis is placed on the social, emotional, and physiological effects of illness and injury in this regards.
The occupational therapist works closely with physicians, nursing services, rehab counselors and other practitioners to provide the best possible program for the patient. Occupational therapy is administered under the direct order of a patient's physician. Treatment may include exercise, functional activities and splinting. Adaptive equipment to increase the patient's ability to perform activities of daily living and instruction in their use may also be provided.
Hand Therapy
Our HandCare Divisions are located at our Maricamp and West Marion Centers and staffed with occupational therapists specializing in Hand Therapy. In fact, the majority of our therapists are nationally recognized as “Certified Hand Therapists”.
Specialized hand therapy treatment is limited to disease and injury of the upper extremity which may include, but is not limited to:
Fractures of the wrist and hand
Rheumatoid and osteoarthritis
Dupuytren's Disease
Congenital deformities
Tendon injuries
Soft injury of hand, wrist and forearm
Overuse (cumulative trauma) disorder
Reconstruction secondary to spinal cord injuries and CVA's
The main objectives of Hand Therapy are:
Evaluation of strength, endurance, and coordination motion
Increase functional use of the upper extremity within the limits of the patient's disability
Decrease pain
Fabrication of dynamic and static splints
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