home safety assessment fall risk assessment balance training transfer training therapeutic exercise gait training

home exercise program Strength and endurance training Adaptive equipment assessment and training Activities of daily living training Pain management

Physical therapy is a key part of most rehabilitation and home care programs, with a focus on fitness, health, and enhancing the patient’s quality of life. The following are example of what our therapists focus on in the home:

Education, exercise and evaluation

Around the Clock’s Home Health care rehabilitation programs are designed to empower clients and their caregivers. Our clients learn transfer techniques and bed mobility, how to manage pain, and how to use mobility-assisting devices such as crutches or walkers. In addition, patients learn stretches and exercises that improve coordination, strength, endurance, balance and range of motion.

When does home physical therapy make sense?

• When you are experiencing reduced coordination, strength, or balance

• Following a recent fall, a sports injury or a medical event such as joint replacement surgery that has made mobility difficult

• When continued therapy is needed following a stay in a short-term rehabilitation facility

• If you are experiencing mobility-inhibiting symptoms from an ongoing medical condition such as arthritis or Parkinson’s disease

• When your home must be adapted for safety or a recovery