Physical Therapy addresses illnesses or injuries that limit a person’s ability to move and perform functional activities in their daily lives through evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment of their impairments. There are a variety of reasons that individuals require physical therapy services, which include rehabilitation for orthopedic injuries, post-surgical, cardiopulmonary, neurological, vestibular, brain and spinal cord injurie,s along with multi-trauma with complex respiratory involvement.

Physical Therapy emphasis is on the following:

• Contracture management
• Fall prevention strategies/education
• Gait training with an assessment of appropriate assistive devices, level/unlevel surfaces, and stair training to assist in returning safely to the community
• Manual therapy
• Modalities: heat/cold packs, electrical stimulation, ultrasound, diathermy to assist with pain, neuromuscular re-education, and strengthening
• Neuro-gym equipment that provides a unique modality allowing immobilized patients to increase speed of mobility
• Neuromuscular re-education to promote balance
• Patient and family education
• Range of Motion re-training
• Therapeutic activities, including bed mobility and transfer training, utilizing proper body mechanics
• Therapeutic exercises to promote increased strength/endurance of the core and lower extremity musculature
• Vestibular assessment

Cascadia of Boise also offers Ventilator and Trach care