Lou Lewis Skilled & Rehabilitation Program
The Lou Lewis Skilled Nursing Program provides:
- Rehabilitation care due to fractures or joint replacements
- Advanced wound care management
- Post-operative care
- Chronic illness management
- Non-invasive respiratory care
- Parkinson’s rehabilitation
- Stroke recovery therapy
- General rehabilitation due to weakness or physical decline
- Diabetic rehabilitation
- IV Therapy
Traditional Therapy
Our expert Houston rehabilitation therapists are dedicated to providing personalized care plans tailored to each resident’s unique needs. We offer a variety of therapies, including physical, occupational, and speech therapies, all aimed at enhancing the quality of life for our seniors.
Occupational Therapy
Registered and licensed Occupational Therapists enable patients to adapt their physical and cognitive capabilities to the skills needed in daily living. Occupational Therapists assess the areas needed for functional independence and customize a treatment plan emphasizing balance, strength, perception, and cognition. Occupational Therapy may include:
- Home living skills
- Hand rehabilitation
- Activities of daily living
- Cognitive perceptual retraining
- Transfer and mobility retraining
- Energy conservation techniques
- Utilization of adaptive equipment
- Upper extremity therapeutic exercises
- Safety instruction
- Prosthetic devices training
- Medical equipment training
- Ultrasound and electrostimulation
- Ordering of splints, slings, and orthotic devices
Physical Therapy
Licensed Physical Therapists focus on improving coordination, balance, strength, endurance, and joint flexibility to help patients achieve optimal levels of functional mobility. To move patients toward greater independent mobility, patient and family rehabilitation education is an integral part of all treatment. At Seven Acres Houston rehabilitation center, our Physical Therapists design individualized treatment programs to help alleviate pain, prevent disability, and restore function following injury or illness as needed, including:
- Joint mobilization
- Therapeutic exercises
- Orthopedic rehabilitation
- Gait and transfer training
- Range-of-motion exercises
- Neuromuscular reeducation
- Fall prevention
- Pain management
- Strength training
- Knee and hip replacement therapy
Speech Therapy
Seven Acres certified and licensed Speech-Language Pathologists focus on restoring the patient’s ability to communicate. They address communication challenges by helping patients improve their skills in speaking, listening, thinking, reading, writing, and problem-solving, as well as in organizing and sequencing thoughts. Speech Language Pathologists also assess swallowing difficulties and develop managed treatment programs.
Speech Therapy focuses on:
- Comprehension
- Cognitive linguistic retraining
- Auditory training
- Reading and writing
- Dysphasia and swallowing
- Speech and vocal skills
- Name and word finding
- Short- and long-term memory
- VitalStim® therapy