Outpatient Therapy + Rehabilitation Services
Special Tree offers Outpatient Rehabilitation services for people ages 5 to adult with brain injury, spinal cord injury, multiple trauma, and other neurorehabilitation needs. Our focus on outcomes at our specialty rehabilitation center are focused on providing the best opportunities for healing and recovery.
Our team leverages best practices + technology to help you maximize independence and function.
A Wide Array of Services Customized to Meet Your Needs
CARF-accredited since 1993, our program has a long-standing history as a center of excellence with highly trained staff to meet your rehabilitation needs including an extensive array of outpatient therapy services. Our rehabilitation staff follows a team approach to provide the best opportunities for healing and recovery for patients starting at age five through adulthood.
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Your Physical Therapist (PT) will concentrate on helping you achieve an improved level of mobility. Physical Therapists are experts in the examination and treatment of musculoskeletal and neuromuscular problems that affect peoples’ abilities to move and function the way they want. They treat clients through the use of therapeutic exercise, functional training, and a variety of activities.
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Occupational Therapists (OTs) help individuals increase their independence by focusing on improving their skills to perform everyday activities. This may include routine tasks such as eating, dressing, bathing and personal care, or more complex activities such as time management, decision-making, meal preparation and planning, return-to-work activities, and more. The overall goal is to increase a person’s independence in all facets of their life, working on “skills for the job of living.”
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Speech-Language Pathologists (SLPs) specialize in the assessment and treatment of communication disorders and issues with swallowing. They treat clients whose injuries have affected skills such as eating, swallowing, verbal and non-verbal communication, memory, sequencing, problem-solving and more. Individual differences in brain function−and location and spread of a client’s injury−require treatment unique to each individual.
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Therapeutic Recreation (TRs) helps clients improve functioning and independence, and helps reduce the effects of illness or disability. Therapists provide recreation resources and opportunities in order to improve clients’ health and well being. Differing from diversional or recreation
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Helping clients adapt to the rehabilitation process and cope with the effects of their injuries is where psychology does its work. The team helps clients with physical or mental disabilities, how they react and cope with disabilities, how others adapt to them, and how well they are able to again participate in home and community activities. Individual or group sessions may be held. Regular sessions may also involve family members who need to understand the emotional and behavioral consequences.
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Social Workers (SWs) help identify social and emotional needs, adjustment to the rehabilitation process, and discharge planning for the clients and families. Coping with a brain injury or spinal cord injury can present unique challenges. Social Workers address the resulting needs, taking into account a client’s age, economic status, education, religious preferences, health and medical issues, behavioral issues, family support system, and general cultural background.
Advanced Technology + Best Practices to Leverage Your Recovery Options
ZeroG Gait + Balance Training
Available at the Special Tree NeuroCare Center, the ZeroG Gait and Balance Training System by Aretech is a robotic body-weight at support system that allows individuals recovering from traumatic events such as a brain or spinal cord injury to participate in safe, high-intensity rehabilitation much sooner in the treatment process, igniting the body’s recovery.
ZeroG provides interactive balance programs and games, with biofeedback, challenging the patient physically and cognitively while teaching them how to anticipate a loss of balance. Without the risk of falling, patients have the confidence to push boundaries and practice functional and real-world activities such as walking, getting up from a chair or the floor, climbing stairs and doing squats.
State-of-the-Art Therapeutic Exercise
Special Tree leverages a variety of advanced technologies to provide the best opportunities for healing and recovery during the rehabilitation process. Using equipment such as electric stimulation cycles and more, these therapy tools help patients with spinal cord injury, multiple sclerosis, stroke, brain injury, or other neurological disorders.
Aquatic Therapy
Led by trained and experienced physical therapists, Aquatic Therapy makes use of the body’s buoyancy in water to provide natural resistance and body support to assist patients with healing and exercise. Therapy and exercises are performed in water in our fully-accessible indoor pool in the Special Tree NeuroCare Center.
ADL Therapy Kitchen
Our fully-equipped therapy kitchen is a dedicated space for patients to work with Occupational Therapists and others to improve skills in the Activities of Daily Living (ADLs). In addition to traditional therapies in our clinic, patients can work on functional skills they will need to return home or live independently. Therapists support patients in relearning skills or modifying activities or using adaptive strategies for activities such as food preparation, cooking, clean up, laundry. This work is supported by the interdisciplinary care team, for example Speech/Language Pathologists support patients in cognitive skills needed to carry out these tasks, such as following a recipe. The ADL Kitchen provides patients with real world, useful skills.
Helping You Achieve More
Special Tree’s therapy clinic is a spacious facility custom built for rehabilitation located within Special Tree’s NeuroCare Center in Romulus, Michigan.
