We specialize in the continued rehabilitation of individuals with neurologic problems, stroke, brain injury, spinal cord injury, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s and other neurologic diagnosis.

Our focus during therapy is on re-training and re-educating individuals to use their bodies with normal motor movements, timing, sequencing, co-ordination and control. We are trained in Neuro Integrative Functional Rehabilitation and Habilitation (Neuro-IFRAH™). This approach was designed by the origination Waleed Al-Oboudi to be used with individuals with lesions at the level of the brain stem and above, i.e. stroke and brain injury. We focus on the normalization of muscle tone, the reacquisition of normal ranges of motion, and the re-education of motor movements and control on the more affected side. This approach allows people to develop more options with regards to movement in their daily lives. The more options and strategies that a person can tap into leads to greater, independence and the ability to adapt to the environment. We believe that total rehab of an individual is total rehab of their entire body.

The therapy we provide is effective and outcome oriented. This means that everything we do with the patient should yield positive results that ultimately make a change in the person’s life. In this therapeutic approach we individualize the therapy to the person’s level of function, goals, interests, roles, functional limitations, and levels of impairments. This approach encourages adaptability. The ultimate goal is for the patient to have the ability to adapt to the environment in addition to having the ability to self-adapt their own environment and adapt within themselves on many levels in many conditions of observation. It is an important characteristic of self-actualization and independence overall.

This approach considers all aspects of the individual. It is important to divide up tasks within areas of specialty, not body parts.

As Neuro-IFRAH™ therapists we, and this approach, place an emphasis on quality. Who should determine the quality of life for the patient? Ultimately, the patient should determine the quality of their life. Quality of movement is related to quality of life. By giving the patient more options, for movement and otherwise, this could in turn improve the personís quality of life.

The Neuro-IFRAH™ approach puts an emphasis on role resumption and assumption. Increased adaptability and increased options allows the patient to resume old roles and take on new roles if they want to.



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