Therapy services provided
6 days a week.

Programs Offered:

Incontinence

Dementia

Pain Management

Rehabilitation

    We provide Occupational, Physical and Speech Therapy specifically tailored to provide the best care for our residents needs. At admission our trained team designs a personalized treatment to help residents overcome medical conditions, injury and surgery. Our compassionate and caring rehab team has an unwavering commitment in helping our residents reach their highest level of maximum potential.

Physical Therapy
Our physical therapy professionals assist residents with:

MOBILITY
Increasing the ability to ambulate and/or use wheelchair propulsion. Improve skills to enable residents to achieve maximum independence.
BALANCE
Improving resident’s balance to enhance safety of transfers and/or ambulation activities.
POSITIONING
 Assessing lower extremity needs for orthotic devices to prevent contractures or improve mobility. Wheelchair positioning for restraint reduction
.
LOWER EXTREMITY FUNCTION

Improving resident’s range of motion
Increasing strength through progressive resistance exercises or muscle re-education.

Occupational Therapy
Our occupational therapy professionals assist residents with:

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING
Increase resident’s independence in self feeding, dressing, bathing, & hygiene by learning new or compensatory techniques with or without adaptive equipment.
FUNCTIONAL TRANSFERS
Improving transfer skills from wheelchair, walker, or cane level to toilet, bed, tub & shower.
UPPER EXTREMITY FUNCTION
Improving resident’s active range of motion, dexterity, and coordination.
Muscle re-education for partial paralysis.
POSITIONING TECHNIQUES
Includes splinting to prevent contractures and/or wheelchair positioning.

Speech Pathology
Our speech language pathology professionals assist residents with   

SPEECH/VOICE
Improving resident’s slurred speech, hoarseness, and nasality.
LANGUAGE
Improving resident’s ability to understand others and express themselves verbally, in writing, and gesturing.
HEARING
Improving resident’s ability to adapt to a hearing loss and better understand others.
COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS
Improving cognitive skills to reduce confusion and disorientation.
Improving impaired problem solving and reasoning skills.
SWALLOWING
Improving resident’s ability to swallow and minimizing choking.
Assist with poor tongue and lip movement and refusal to eat.

Olde Knox Commons
Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitation Center
13825 Hunton Lane Huntersville, NC 28078
(704) 897-2700