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Artesia General Hospital’s Rehabilitation Center offers comprehensive Physical, Occupational, and Speech therapy designed to restore function and improve your quality of life. Whether you are recovering from surgery, managing a chronic condition, or overcoming a speech or swallowing disorder, we are here to guide your recovery. For more information or to schedule an evaluation, please call us at 575.736.8174.
Speech Therapy Services are also available in Carlsbad.

Overview

Whether you’re injured on the job, playing a sport, or experiencing age-related conditions, healing takes time. At Artesia General Hospital’s Rehabilitation Center, we understand the recovery process at every step.

The Rehabilitation Center offers a variety of inpatient and convenient outpatient services, led by experienced, licensed therapists. Our goal is to help our patients overcome physical challenges and return to the activities that bring them joy.

Artesia General Hospital’s Rehabilitation Center’s services include:

Physical Therapy – Restores strength, balance, and mobility to help you move without pain after injury or surgery.
Occupational Therapy – Rebuilds the essential skills needed for daily living, helping you regain independence at home and work.
Speech Therapy – Treats communication, memory, and swallowing disorders to improve your ability to speak clearly and eat safely.

Our multidisciplinary team at the Artesia Rehabilitation Center provides a comprehensive evaluation with the full support of your primary care provider to develop a customized plan that supports your personal goals and recovery needs. These treatment plans help manage symptoms, educate patients and their families—and ultimately return you to your active lifestyle. Our integrated approach to rehabilitation is designed to facilitate your best possible recovery.

For more information or to schedule an evaluation, please call us at 575.736.8174.

Physical Therapy

As part of our rehabilitation program, our innovative physical therapy services support the rehabilitation goals of each patient through a combination of inpatient and outpatient care, as well as customized home exercise programs. We want to help you get back to work…back to play…back to life.

You may seek physical therapy to restore your strength and balance, improve your range of motion, reduce pain after surgery or injury, treat underlying medical conditions, or take control of your health with preventive treatments. No matter what brings you to our team, we’re continually advancing care to help you achieve a healthier you.

Key benefits of our physical therapy program include:

Keep your game strong by designing customized exercise plans to reduce the risk of joint and muscle damage—no matter your skill level or sport of choice
Increase independence for older adults by improving balance and strength to reduce the risk of falls and improving activity tolerance thus improving functional independence and overall quality of life.
Recover from a stroke through techniques such as neuromuscular re-education to help coordinate nerves and muscles; proprioceptive training, which re-trains the nervous system to aid in self-awareness of body position; strength and balance training; and “arm restriction,” which helps the body support affected limbs.
Eliminating complaints of discomfort in joints, muscles, tendons, ligaments, referred pain, numbness, and tingling from irritated nerve roots, or localized pain.

Physical Therapy Services in Artesia Include

mTrigger Biofeedback System
Adaptive Equipment Training
Strengthening and Balance Training
Dry Needling
Fall Prevention
Fine Motor Coordination
Gait Training (Improve your ability to ambulate/walk)
Headaches
Home Modification Strategies
Manual Therapy (Manipulation and Mobilization)
Musculoskeletal Strengthening
Neuromuscular Re-education (Balance and Proprioceptive Training)

Orthopedic Sports Medicine
Pre-surgical and Post-surgical Instruction
Return-to-Work Conditioning
Endurance training
Stroke Recovery
Vestibular Rehabilitation
Back and neck pain
Upper and Lower extremity radicular pain
Plantar fasciitis
Shoulder pain, rotator cuff strain/tear
Manual and Mechanical Traction: cervical and lumbar

Occupational Therapy

Occupational therapy is all about empowering you to perform activities of daily life that have become difficult due to disease or injury—such as bathing and toileting, using the telephone, preparing meals, and anything else you need or want to do as part of a daily routine. Because hands and arms are so versatile and crucial to all daily activities, OT is often a good fit for upper extremity injuries. We can help improve range of motion, strength, and fine motor control after surgical intervention, or even to prevent it.

As your partner in health, our OT practitioners are committed to healing your body to help you fully enjoy life. Balancing your current abilities, your environment and the demands of your daily life, we partner with you to understand your most important activities—and customize a plan to increase your ease and independence at every step.

We are currently accepting referrals for patients of all ages. Our occupational therapy team is eager to partner with you.

Through a patient-centered, interdisciplinary approach, Artesia General Hospital’s outpatient occupational therapy services can support you in the following areas:

Hand and Upper Extremity Injuries
Mental Health
Neurological Problems: Stroke, Traumatic Brain Injury, Parkinson’s Disease
Chronic illness
The complex interplay between 2 or more of these specialty areas
Any condition that prevents an individual from living a full and independent life

Occupational Therapy Services in Artesia Include

Adaptive Equipment Training
Behavioral Health
Fine Motor Coordination
Hand Therapy
Musculoskeletal Pain Management
Home Modification Strategies
Musculoskeletal Strengthening

Neuromuscular Re-education
Upper Extremity Orthopedics
Pre-surgical and Post-surgical Instruction
Return-to-Work Hardening
Sensory Integration Therapy
Stroke Recovery

Speech Therapy

As the only clinic in Artesia that provides outpatient speech therapy, we have the expertise, convenient location, and program options to offer all the support you or your loved one may need.

Our speech-language pathologists assess speech, language, and cognitive communication, as well as oral, feeding, and swallowing skills. During treatment, we’ll focus on improving communication and empowering our patients to meet their goals.

We also offer customized services for adults who have suffered a stroke or brain injury, as well as those experiencing impairments such as Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, Huntington’s or multiple sclerosis.