PHYSICAL THERAPY

Recovering from a surgery, illness, injury, etc. can be extremely difficult. Luckily, All County Health Care has Physical Therapists (PTs) and Physical Therapists Assistants (PTAs) that can help you restore maximum physical functions by improving your strength and balance, preventing further loss of mobility, and improving overall fitness, wellness and quality of life. A PT or PTA will work with you to accomplish your goals through targeted administration of age and appropriate exercises and stretches, in addition to a wide range of other methods. Our PTs and PTAs will help you restore function, improve mobility, relive pain, and prevent or limit permanent disability is you have experienced an injury or illness.

Conditions treated with physical therapy includes, but is not limited to:

  • Loss of balance

  • Walking difficulties

  • Back or joint pain

  • Joint replacements

  • Orthopedic injuries or surgery

  • Breathing and/or heart problems

  • People who fall or are at risk for falls

  • Stroke or neurological diseases and injuries and any noticeable decline in function.

Our highly trained physical therapists here at All County Health Care, Inc. can provide you with physical therapy in Fort Lauderdale to help you restore function, improve mobility, relive pain, and prevent or limit permanent disability is you have experienced an injury or illness. And we can help you with all of this in the comfort of your very own home. That way, you can recover safely and more independently in a comfortable environment. Contact our Medicare certified home health agency to learn more about physical therapy in Florida today!

OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY

All County Health Care has highly trained certified Occupational Therapists (OTs) or certified Occupational Therapist Assistants (COTAs). Out skilled OTs and OTAs can assist in regaining the ability to complete activities you do on daily basis and improve your quality of life. Our OTs also offer Low Vision Rehabilitation Services in the home. Our Occupational Therapist are an effective and important component of our home health agency’s patient plan of care. Occupational therapist can have many roles in improving efficiency, implementing new administrative requirements, and optimizing outcomes for patients, serious illness or injuries can result in a being unable to care for themselves, and they may need help in their home. Occupational Therapists (OTs) or certified Occupational Therapist Assistants (COTAs) can help you overcome many of these daily challenges as you recover.

Occupational Therapy is designed to help you make incremental small adjustments that can help:

  • Improved safety at home

  • Decreased risk of falls

  • Conserved energy

  • Increased strength and flexibility and Improved function

 

SPEECH THERAPY

All County Health Care employs highly skilled Speech Therapist (STs) who treat you in the comfort of your own home. Our STs will assess and treat your speech disorders such as language, communication, cognitive and swallowing. Speech therapy is an essential element to the home health plan of care. By focusing on communication, cognitive and swallowing treatment programs our Speech Therapist will help improve your quality of life. Communication disorders affect daily tasks such as talking on the phone, communicating people such as family and your physicians, even calling 911 for an emergency. Aphasia, dysarthria and general weakness can all contribute to communication difficulties. Speech therapists develop verbal and nonverbal communication that assist in your recovery.

Alzheimer’s disease, dementia or general cognitive impairments can result in memory loss and disorientation can. Medication’s side effects or even dehydration can also add to these deficits. To help patients with cognitive impairments, speech therapists develop programs with structured memory tasks, problem solving, reasoning, visual and auditory aids, calendars and family education.

Dysphagia, or difficulty swallowing, is a common diagnosis in home health patients. This can cause weight loss, aspiration (food or liquid entering the airway) and aspiration pneumonia, which is a very serious condition.