Neuromuscular Physical Therapy Rehabilitation

Neuromuscular Therapy involves the evaluation and treatment of impairments due to neurological disorders. Such impairments may include difficulties moving, talking, balancing, swallowing, and breathing.

Physical therapy helps patients complete daily living activities; improve mobility, movement, muscle control, balance, and walking; prevent or decrease weakness caused by lack of use; manage pain; and maintain range of motion.

Our goal is to help patients return to the highest level of function and independence possible and improve overall quality of life.

Neurological Disorders Treated

 

Spotlight on Parkinson’s Disease

At Mangiarelli Rehabilitation, we offer the innovative treatment of boxing exercise for patients with Parkinson’s Disease. Boxing exercise is a therapeutic technique to improve coordination and balance.

Our physical therapists use modified, non-contact boxing techniques to build strength, counter muscle rigidity, and improve posture, agility, balance, and hand-eye coordination in patients with the disease.

Boxing exercise requires whole-body movement, involving upper-body punching motions in combination with lower-body footwork. This movement addresses Parkinson’s symptoms of tremors, postural rigidity and instability, balance issues, and gait mobility by encouraging flexibility of the spine, agility of movement in multiple directions, and coordination of movement at faster speeds.

Watch our physical therapist working with a Parkinson’s Disease patient using boxing exercise treatment in this video!

Multiple Sclerosis Physical Therapy Treatment

Physical therapy can play a pivotal role in maintaining the functional abilities of a patient with Multiple Sclerosis.

Our physical therapists conduct a thorough evaluation to assess your walking ability; perform a standardized disability assessment; test your ability to feel sensations such as cold, heat, pain, and pressure; and evaluate balance, physical exertion, gait, and joint and muscle flexibility.

Following your initial assessment, our physical therapists design a treatment plan to build upon your baseline evaluation. We continue to assess and update the treatment plan throughout various phases of the disease, from initial diagnosis to relapse and through periods of progression and of stability, to achieve optimal functioning, safe mobility, and increased strength and flexibility.

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