Outpatient Rehabilitation Center - Dignity Health - Dominican Hospital

At Dominican Hospital, our comprehensive outpatient rehabilitation services include:

• Hand and arm rehabilitation
• Lymphedema therapy
• Neurological physical therapy
• Occupational therapy
• Orthopedic rehabilitation
• Pediatric occupational and physical therapy
• Speech therapy
• Wheelchair/mobility program
• Vestibular therapy

For more information or to make an appointment, please call (831) 457-7057. Our fax number is (831) 457-7071.

Learn more about rehabilitation therapy

At Dominican Hospital, our hand and arm rehabilitation program will help you regain maximum hand and arm function. Our hand therapists provide timely intervention, working with you promptly after surgery or from the early stages of hand injury or disease. They guide you through a personalized rehabilitation plan to help you regain function, which may include pain and wound management, exercise programs and techniques to reduce symptoms.

You may benefit from hand and arm therapy if you have experienced:

• Amputation or replantation
• Arthritis
• Bone fracture
• Burn or thermal injury
• Carpal tunnel syndrome
• Chronic pain condition 
• Nerve injury
• Repetitive motion injury
• Sprain or strain
• Tendon or ligament injury
• Traumatic injury of the hand, wrist, forearm and elbow

Lymphedema therapy at Dominican Hospital offers therapy interventions focused on reducing and managing lymphedema symptoms,  including:

• Compression wraps
• Exercise programs
• Education
• Manual lymphatic drainage
• Ongoing self-management techniques
• Skin care

Our staff includes certified lymphedema therapists and Lymphedema Association of North America (LANA)-certified physical and occupational therapists who create a treatment plan based on your individual needs.

We offer individualized and evidence-based interventions to help patients with neurological impairments due to illness, disease or injury of the nervous system, such as:

• Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)
• Balance impairments
• Multiple sclerosis (MS)
• Parkinson’s disease
• Post-amputation rehabilitation
• Spinal cord injury
• Stroke
• Traumatic brain injury (TBI)

Our licensed staff at Dominican Hospital will provide therapy based on evaluation of your condition and your own personal goals. This one-on-one therapy may include at-home exercises, aquatic therapy and interventions for walking needs, such as walking aides or a gait trainer. Many of our physical therapists are trained and certified in Neuro-Development Treatment (NDT), Neurologic Clinical Specialist (NCS), Neuro-IFRAH care for stroke or brain injury and LSVT Big therapy for neurological conditions like Parkinson’s disease.

Occupational therapy helps you to improve the way you perform everyday activities such as bathing, dressing, eating, writing, cooking and other tasks that may be challenging due to a physical or cognitive condition. 

Our occupational therapists at Dominican Hospital help you develop, recover, or maintain daily living and work skills through:

• Cognitive, perceptual and visual screenings 
• Coordination activities
• Custom splint fabrication
• Edema management
• Energy conservation after injury or illness or due to cancer-related fatigue
• Guiding patients, family members and caregivers in lifestyle and health management
• Identifying and eliminating environmental barriers
• Joint protection
• Recommendations on adaptive equipment and usage training
• Sensory stimulation or desensitization
• Therapeutic exercises

The orthopedic physical therapy team at Dominican Hospital provides results-oriented, personalized therapy services for patients with all types of orthopedic injuries, conditions and surgeries. We evaluate and treat each patient on an individual basis and are committed to helping you reach your optimal level of function. We work closely with you, the orthopedic physician and other clinicians to coordinate your care and help you achieve the best outcomes.

Your treatment program will include:

• 60-minute evaluation
• 45-minute follow-up appointments
• Consistent therapist at each visit
• Exercise-based and manual therapies and techniques
• One-on-one physical therapy
• Sports-specific training and conditioning

We help children with developmental, neurological, orthopedic, sensory or feeding difficulties and their families. At Dominican Hospital, our team of occupational medicine specialists and physical therapists is specially trained to work with babies, medically fragile infants, premature babies and young children. They provide direct, hands-on, child-focused treatment designed to meet the needs of you and your child.

They also work to educate your family about many other issues related to your child’s condition and how to care for them. Based on your child’s needs, our team works with your family to develop therapy goals, an individual plan of care and a customized home program. We will also help identify other programs in the community that may benefit you and your child.

At Dominican Hospital, we offer occupational therapy and physical therapy, designed to meet the unique needs of infants and young children. 

Our services include:

• Breast or bottle feeding support for young infants, including transition to solid food
• Feeding and swallowing therapies
• Therapeutic activities to help your child achieve, maintain and transition between levels of alertness
• Helping preschool children gain postural control and fine motor skills
• Programs for medically fragile, premature, drug-exposed and other high-risk infants and young children
• Treatment that addresses your child’s ability to eat, play and learn
• Improving your child’s functional independence
• Strategies to improve your child’s mobility and ability to play

We focus on improving verbal and nonverbal communication skills, problem-solving abilities, concentration, memory, voice quality and swallowing ability and function. Our team at Dominican Hospital can help if you have difficulties related to illness, disease or injury. 

Our program offers bilingual, English and Spanish speech therapy to adults and children starting at the age of three. Our speech-language pathologists have specialized certifications in:

• LSVT Loud Program for patients with Parkinson’s disease
• Neuromuscular Stimulation VitalStim® Therapy for swallowing problems
• Oncology speech rehabilitation for swallow, voice and speech difficulties
• MBSImP Modified Barium Swallow Impairment Profile for high accuracy in determining results of swallowing studies 
• P-ESL Accent Modification Certification

If you have impaired mobility due to injury or illness, the Wheelchair/Mobility Program at Dominican Hospital Outpatient Rehabilitation Center can help. Our therapists work together with qualified vendors to identify the most effective mobility aid and/or wheelchair equipment for you. 

We provide evaluations for:

• Complex power and manual wheelchairs
• Cushions and backrests
• Custom molded seating systems
• Four-wheel and specialty walkers
• Powered seating systems
• Power assist wheels assessments
• Power wheelchair driver ability
• Pressure mapping
• Seat lift chairs
• Standing frames

We also provide functional mobility evaluations for patients whose mobility needs have not been previously assessed. Our specially trained therapists conduct a complex evaluation, including balance and fall risk, and submit the results/report and recommendations to the referring physician for consideration.

Vestibular rehabilitation is an evaluation and treatment by a physical therapist trained in vestibular disorders.

Our thorough evaluations include:

• Balance and posture check
• Discussion of your specific symptoms and limitations
• Nerve, muscle, and bone exam
• Eye movement exam
• Positional testing

Each patient receives a personalized treatment program, which may include:

• Balance and posture exercises
• Coping or substitution methods
• Education
• Training for daily activities
• Eye movement exercises
• General fitness program
• Repetitive exercises to reduce symptoms (Habituation)
• Exercises to do at home
• Hands-on therapy