Physical Therapy at St. Luke’s offers memory care for individuals who experience changes in thinking skills due to age or neurological event. Our Occupational and Speech Therapy clinicians work to evaluate and create a custom treatment plan to learn how to manage these challenges and work to restore skills. Due to events such as a stoke, traumatic brain injury or neurologic diagnoses (i.e., Parkinson’s disease or Multiple Sclerosis), you may experience difficulties with short term memory, word finding, attention, thought processing and problem solving.
Treatment Services Available
Interactive Metronome (IM): IM is a computerized program which reflects in milliseconds, the individual’s ability to perform simple motor movements in response to a beat. It is designed to improve motor planning, sequencing, language processing and higher-level cognitive functions.
Bioness Integrated Therapy System (BITS): BITS is an interactive touchscreen with programs to challenge individual’s through the use of visual motor activities, visual and auditory processing, cognitive skills and endurance training.
Fitness to Drive Evaluation: Physical Therapy at St. Luke’s offers our Fitness to Drive program at various locations within the network. We have partnered with DriveAble to help measure the skills needed for safe driving and predict actual on-road performance for our patients. Our clinicians use a touch-screen computer system to complete the testing. Areas that are tested include: