Schnepp Health Care Center Rehabilitation Services

Schnepp Health Care Center is deeply committed to providing the highest quality rehabilitation services. Our facility offers a full-time physical therapist with full-time assistants and specially trained restorative nursing staff that continues to work with residents after therapy has been completed. This helps residents reach and maintain their maximum potential. Schnepp Health Care Center also has a full-time Occupational Therapist and a part-time Speech Therapist to complete the team.

What is Therapy?

Our rehabilitation programs are designed for the treatment of:

Post stroke rehabilitation
Post amputation rehabilitation
Post joint replacement
Fractures
Spinal cord injury
Brain injury
Surgical recovery

Specialized skin and wound care
Heart disease
Lung disease
Alzheimer's Disease
Nutritional management
Cognitive and perceptual retraining

The goal of our rehabilitation services is to accomplish the following:

Restore resident dignity and self-esteem
Increase functional mobility
Improve meaningful and appropriate communication
Decrease contractures
Increase strength through therapeutic exercise
Heal wounds
Improve independent self-care skills
Reduce pain
Promote safe swallowing and oral intake
Return residents to his/her highest level of function

Physical Therapy (PT) is the treatment of injury, disease and other physical and/or mental disorders to restore function or reduce disability. Procedures include exercises to increase strength, endurance, coordination and range of motion, the use of assistive devices (such as walkers or canes), and the application of physical agents (such as hot/cold packs) or exercises to relieve pain, promote healing and restore function. (return to top of page)

Occupational Therapy (OT) is the use of purposeful activities to restore and maximize independence, prevent associated disability and maintain health. Procedures include use of specific activities (such as eating and grooming) to improve or restore function, to compensate for dysfunction, or to minimize disability. OT provides experience and practice with actual tasks to enable residents to participate to the fullest extent possible in activities in their living environment. (return to top of page)

Speech Therapy (ST) is the treatment of a communication deficit or a swallowing problem in order to manage, rehabilitate, or modify such disorders. Procedures include treatment in the areas of language disorders, cognitive disorders and swallowing risks. This involves cognitive retraining (memory), oral motor exercise (speech and swallowing deficits) and proper identification of appropriate dietary needs to sustain weight and strength. (return to top of page)