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While physicians do not have to specify a treatment when referring a patient to us, you may do so.  Here is a list of the services that we regularly provide to patients

Orthopedics

• Complete evaluation according to the APTA sponsored, Guide to Physical Therapy

• Individualized therapeutic intervention including pain management, active and passive mobilization to improve mobility, edema management, and exercise to improve strength and endurance. 

• Assessment of patient's job description or the athlete's sport, to design a work hardening program

• Assessment of patient's ADLs, including work station, to design adaptations to prevent recurrence

• Fabrication of custom orthotics

• PACE: People with Arthritis Can Exercise.

• Aquatic exercises

• Two staff therapists are board certified specialist in orthopedics, by the American Physical Therapy Board of Specialties

Hands

• Complete evaluation and report

• Individualized therapeutic intervention including pain management, edema control, active and passive mobilization to improve mobility, scar management, strength, and function

• Fabrication of custom splints for post-op and conservative management

• ADL instruction 

• Workplace assessment and adaptation

• Standardized tests for independent medical exams 

• An occupational therapist is a certified hand therapist, by the American Society for Hand Therapy

Vestibular Rehabilitation

• Complete evaluation and report

• Therapeutic exercises for modification and adaptation

• Fall prevention exercise classes and individualized programs 

Pediatrics

• Partners with LEARN Birth to Three

• Services provided in local public schools

• Therapy provided in clinic or in natural settings

• Cascade AFO fabrication 

• Interface with Connecticut Rehabilitation and other vendors to provide wheelchairs, standers, and other adaptive equipment

• Sensory integration programs

• Aquatic program

Presentations

For Industry

• Foxwoods Casino: Produced videotape designed to reduce injuries for dealers

• Ocean Surveys: In-service to reduce back injuries

• Bethpage: Training for all employees in:

• back care.

• providing exercises for mentally retarded clients 

• transfer techniques 

• selecting equipment

For the community

We regularly give presentations to community groups. Some of these are done in our clinic, and some are in the schools and community:

• Golf injuries, Rotary Club

• Arthritis, co-sponsored by the Arthritis Foundation

• Preventing Cheerleading Injuries, East Lyme Pee Wee Football League

• "Continence training",  East Lyme Senior Citizen Center 

• "Body type and sports": East Lyme 4th grades 

• "Muscles Alive!" Careers for Girls in Science and Math. Sponsored by LEARN 

For educators:

• Orthopedic intervention in pediatric patients, to the therapists in the Hartford school system

• Team building strategies, Together We Will Conference, 1996

• "No More Therapy in the Living Room" - on natural environments. Together We Will Conference, 2000.

• Sterling School: Sensory integration

• US Submarine Base Day Care Center: School readiness: Fine and gross motor skills

• "Musicians are Athletes, Too", Connecticut Music Teachers Association

• Guest lecturer, University of Connecticut School of Physical Therapy: Rheumatology

• Team building strategies, Groton Public School special education teachers