Rehab Care in Zephyrhills

You’re ready to get back to your old self again — moving freely, enjoying a familiar range of motion and fully participating in the life you love. We’re ready to help you get there. After collaborating with your physician to develop a customized treatment plan, your physical therapist will work with you until you’ve achieved your goals. One-on-one physical therapy sessions take place in our Outpatient Rehabilitation Department located inside AdventHealth Zephyrhills.

Your physical therapist can help you improve strength and flexibility that may have been lost due to a wide range of functional impairments, including but not limited to:

• Arthritis
• Frozen Shoulder
• Gait Issues
• Neck and Back Pain
• Neurological Disorders
• Orthopedic Disorders
• Trauma and Injury
• Vertigo and Balance Disorders

As you work through your plan, we’ll be there to provide guidance, resources, and encouragement until your goals are met. Throughout your physical therapy, our goal is your goal: Getting you back to your best, so you can get back to enjoying the activities you love.

At AdventHealth Zephyrhills, we understand that when your hand or wrist is stiff and sore, the simplest daily activities can be tough. It becomes hard to write, work and even hug the people you love, and that can take a toll. That’s why we take a whole-person approach to your care — because we know that easing your mind and lifting your spirits can work wonders along your path to wellness. We care for a range of hand and wrist conditions, including:

• Carpal tunnel syndrome
• Trigger finger
• Soft tissue injury
• Tendon repair
• Arthritis
• Fractures
• Amputation
• Pre-and post-surgical recovery

Treatments can include:

• ROM activities to increased mobility and function of a joint
• Techniques to reduce pain and inflammation
• Generalized coordination and strengthening programs
• Fabrication and customization of orthotics including static, static progressive, and dynamic orthotics

Your team will work closely with you to get to the root cause of the problem and build your personalized treatment plan to help you restore mobility and build strength.

Lymphedema is the swelling of one of your body parts. Usually, lymphedema affects your arms or legs and is limited to one limb. However, lymphedema can involve your face, trunk, abdomen or genitals. This condition is the result of an accumulation of protein-rich fluid in your tissues. AdventHealth Zephyrhills designs an outpatient therapy plan to best meet your unique needs. Based on physicians’ recommendations, we offer lymphedema patients a two-part treatment plan that’s proven to have the best results and is also the least invasive.

Treatment - Part One
At AdventHealth Zephyrhills, a licensed Occupational or Physical Therapist will guide you through what’s called Complete Decongestive Therapy. You’ll attend up to five therapy sessions weekly for several weeks, or until your swelling is reduced to its lowest possible level. You’ll then be fitted with a graduated compression garment. Here’s what you can expect during the first treatment stage:

• Meticulous skin care and learning how to do this yourself
• Manual lymphatic drainage
• Bandaging/graduated compression therapy
• Therapeutic exercises

Treatment - Part Two
You’ll now play a bigger role in your self-care. Your therapist will work with you to ensure that you understand how to properly do all of the things outlined in the first treatment phase. This is an important part of the ongoing care you’ll do regularly to manage your lymphedema.

You’ve been independent your whole life and are used to taking care of yourself. When injury or disease step in to your life and make daily activities difficult, count on our occupational therapists to help guide you back to self-sufficiency.

In conjunction with your physician, your occupational therapy team will work with you to relearn skills such as bathing, dressing, grooming, feeding and homemaking. This therapy will also help you relearn how to process information and improve judgment and memory. In addition to these skills, our therapists specialize in hand therapy for those looking to regain dexterity.

If you are having problems with your voice or difficulty with communication or memory, the speech and language pathologists at AdventHealth Zephyrhills, formerly Florida Hospital Zephyrhills, are here to help you. We will work with you to improve:

• Articulation Problems
• Language Deficits
• Oral Motor Skills
• Swallowing Disorders

Whether your speech has been affected by a stroke, an injury, or another condition, your dedicated speech therapist will work with you until you find your voice again.

Communication and Language Disorders in Adults – Speech-language pathologists evaluate, educate and train patients and families learning new ways to communicate following stroke and other neurological disorders. Common communication disorders treated include:

• Aphasia
• Apraxia
• Dysarthria
• Dysfluency (Stuttering)

Cognitive Therapy – Cognitive training helps improve each patient’s attention and concentration. Patients and families learn compensatory strategies, new ways to cope or manage mild to moderate memory loss. Cognitive problems treated include:

• Attention
• Concentration
• Memory
• Visual perceptual
• Reasoning and problem solving
• Voice therapy

Dysphagia – Speech-language pathologists work closely with radiologists to evaluate swallowing using modified barium swallow studies to help determine the cause of the swallowing problem as a result of:

• Stroke
• Cancer surgery
• GERD (gastroesophageal reflux)
• Progressive neurological disorders
• Pulmonary disease

Treatment usually includes:

• VitalStim Therapy
• Oral Motor and Hyoid Elevation Exercises
• Diet and food texture recommendations
• Compensatory swallow techniques

Research suggests that those with Parkinson’s disease should NOT wait until you begin to experience disability, impaired function, or loss of balance to start exercise-based physical and occupational therapy. With more than 20 years of research funded by the National Institute of Health, Lee Silverman Voice Treatment (LSVT) BIG® is a standardized treatment with documented success.

LSVT BIG® exercise techniques train individuals to use bigger movements to improve and maintain their physical abilities. This treatment encourages individuals to keep moving and to stay active in daily living.

Improvements may include the following:

• Faster walking with bigger steps
• Improved balance
• Increased trunk rotation

Our certified LSVT BIG® therapists will teach you how to avoid inactivity and keep your movements alive.

Rehabilitation for pelvic health focuses on improving the function of your pelvic floor muscles and pelvic girdle. These muscles are essential for supporting your core, bowel, bladder and sexual function. We understand the need for modesty and offer private treatment rooms for complete discretion. You’ll be paired with a pelvic health therapist who will offer personalized one-on-one treatments to help you strengthen your pelvic floor muscles and restore a better quality of life.

If you suffer from any of the following conditions, pelvic health therapy may be able to help you:

• Urge Incontinence
• Stress or Mixed Urinary Incontinence
• Interstitial Cystitis
• Painful Bladder Syndrome
• Prolapse
• Fecal Incontinence
• Endometriosis
• Pelvic Inflammatory Disease
• Other Painful Issues of the Pelvic Area