Our Services
Wellness Care Centers offers a unique blend of comprehensive services that are rarely found in other outpatient facilities. Using a team approach with high quality health care professionals, we work to improve our patients' physical, mental, and social conditions so they can reach their full potential. For your convenience, we also offer a car service for patients who need assistance with transportation to and from our facilities.
PHYSICAL THERAPY
Physical therapy is the treatment of physical disabilities, sports injuries, and neurological disorders as they impact or hinder your daily functional mobility. It uses movement to facilitate the healing process and returns individuals to an optimal physical functional level
Who Is It Designed For?
Physical Therapy is designed for anyone who has pain, injury, weakness, balance deficits, or limited range of motion.
- Orthopedic problems such as
- Low back pain
- Joint replacement surgeries
- Injury or trauma
- Sacroiliac dysfunction
- Tendonitis
- headaches/temporomandibular joint dysfunction
- Plantar fasciitis
- Neurological conditions such as
- MS
- Stroke
- Parkinson’s
** NEW** Now Offering Dry Needling and Dry Cupping at Our Richardson Clinic!
We are excited to introduce two advanced physical therapy techniques at our Richardson clinic- Dry Needling and Dry Cupping. these treatments are designed to help alleviate pain, improve movement, and promote faster recovery, tailored to your individual needs.
- Dry Needling: This technique uses ultra-thin needles to target tight, knotted muscles, known as trigger points. By releasing these tension points, dry needling can:
- Relieve chronic muscle pain and discomfort
- Improve range of motion and flexibility
- Speed up recovery from muscle injuries
- Reduce muscle tightness and spasms
- Enhance the body's natural healing response
- Dry Cupping: Using specialized suction cups, dry cupping creates negative pressure on the skin, which lifts and separates tight muscles. The benefits include:
- increased blood flow and improved circulation to targeted areas
- Relief from muscle tension and soreness
- Reduction of inflammation and swelling
- Enhanced recovery from overuse or injury
- Support for the body's natural detoxification processes
Both treatments are safe, effective, and performed by our skilled physical therapists to support your recovery goals. Whether you're an athlete, recovering from an injury, or seeking relief from chronic pain, these services can help you get back to feeling your best. Contact us today to schedule a consultation and see how Dry Needling and Dry Cupping can benefit you!
OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY
Occupational Therapy helps people of all ages who have physical, sensory, or cognitive problems. OT can help them regain independence in all areas of their lives. Occupational therapists help with barriers that affect a person's emotional, social, and physical needs.
How Does It Work?
An evaluation will be done by one of our licensed Occupational Therapists. During the evaluation, the therapist will gather information from you, perform standardized testing if appropriate, and observe the patient. The therapist will identify problems and strengths and determine the best way to improve the patient's skills. If the patient will benefit from occupational therapy, an individual plan will be established with the adult patient/the parents and the child’s input if appropriate, and the patient's doctor.
SPEECH THERAPY
Speech therapy is the treatment for language & speech disorders and swallowing problems to improve language skills, cognitive aspects of daily life.
Who Is It Designed For?
The speech disorders addressed include:
- Speech (i.e. phonation, articulation, fluency, resonance, and voice).
- Language (i.e. phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatic/social aspects of communication) including comprehension and expression; language processing; preliteracy and language-based literacy skills; and phonological awareness
- Voice (i.e. hoarseness, poor vocal volume, abnormal vocal quality). Research has been proven to demonstrate voice therapy to be especially helpful with certain patient populations.
- Augmentative and Alternative Communication (i.e. evaluation for and consideration of different types of AAC devices that will aid a patient in communicating). Whenever possible, SLPs utilize community resources to find funding for such devices.
- Swallowing
- Sensory awareness related to communication and swallowing.
- Cognitive aspects of communication (e.g. memory, problem solving, executive functions).
FEEDING THERAPY
The goal of feeding therapy is to help individuals develop normal, effective feeding patterns and behaviors. Feeding therapy is more than just “teaching to eat.” Therapists collaborate with the patient or caregivers to determine the source of the patient's difficulties and develop very specific therapies to make the entire process of eating easier and more enjoyable.
Signs Feeding Therapy Is Needed:
- Difficulty chewing foods, typically swallowing food in whole pieces or refuses to swallow certain types of food consistencies.
- Refuses to eat certain food textures or has difficulty transitioning from one texture to another texture (ex: from bottle feedings to purees, from purees to soft solids or mixed textured foods).
- Gags on, avoids or is very sensitive to certain food textures, food temperatures and/or flavors.
- Struggles to control and coordinate moving food around in mouth, chewing and preparing to swallow food.
- Fussy or irritable with feeding.
- The child seems congestion during feedings or after.
- Refuses or rarely tries new foods. Considered a “picky eater”.
- Pushes food away.
- Has difficulty transitioning from gastric tube (G tube) feedings to oral feedings.
- Negative mealtime behaviors (infant cries, arches, pulls away from food; child refuses to eat, tantrums at mealtimes or “shuts-down” and does not engage in mealtime).
- Infant demonstrating signs of difficulty with coordinating the suck/swallow/breath pattern during bottle or breastfeeding.
- Feeding time taking longer than 30 minutes for infants, and 30 to 40 minutes for toddlers or young children.
PULMONARY REHABILITATION
Combines education, exercise training, and lifestyle counseling to help patients with chronic lung conditions.
VESTIBULAR REHABILITATION
Uses exercise to address dizziness and balance impairments. Treatments may include patient and caregiver education as well as in-clinic and home exercises.
SOCIAL SERVICES
Counseling is used to treat individuals with emotional problems or behavioral issues. The focus of counseling is to stimulate one's optimum behavioral, emotional and social development.. The goal is to resolve problems that affect their personal and family lives and improve the overall well-being of the patient. Wellness Care Centers & Pediatric Rehab's counselors are trained to improve the functioning of the whole family and provide stability to cope with life’s difficulties.
Signs counseling is needed:
- Impatient or bossy with other people
- Disruptive in class or may be considered the class clown
- Seem to always be too hard on themselves or others
- Depressed
- Anti-social or combative
- Resists daily routines and refuses to help
- Too much energy
What Does A Counselor Do?
At Pediatric Rehab, our Counselors are dedicated to improving patients lives. They can work one-on-one with children and families to support those dealing with domestic conflicts or social issues. They help to improve the social and psychological functioning of each child in order to minimize the well-being of the child and their family. Counselors can provide services that are far reaching, supporting patients in areas ranging from disabilities to dysfunctional and challenging home situations.
How Does It Work?
An evaluation will be done by the Wellness Care Centers & Pediatric Rehab Counselor. The evaluation will require time with the patient or the parent/guardian/care giver separate from the child, time with the child and perhaps input from the teacher or physician, if appropriate. Once all of this information is gathered, a plan of care will be developed with the parent/guardian or patient, if appropriate.