Physical Therapy
After injury or illness, physical therapy helps patients get back to work, play and their lives. Experienced physical therapists at Lutheran Kosciusko Hospital work with doctors and nurses to create programs that improve movement, balance, endurance and strength for patients, helping them move—onward, upward and forward.
The physical therapy staff utilizes many different treatment techniques including:
- Therapeutic exercises
- Individualized home exercise programs
- Manual therapy
- Issuing of TENS units
- Augmented soft tissue mobilization (ASTM)
- Custom shoe orthotics
- Cervical and lumbar traction
- A range of modalities including electrical stimulation, ultrasound and Iontophoresis
- Dry needling and cupping
Physical therapy services may include:
- Treatment of orthopedic conditions
- Treatment of neurological conditions
- Work-related injury care
- Sports injury treatment
- Care for general medical conditions
- Amputee rehabilitation
- Lymphedema services
- Wound care
- Wheelchair assessments
- Functional capacity evaluations
- Strength testing
- Flexibility testing
- Material handling ability testing
- Isokinetic muscle testing
- "Back to Golf"