Health Force Outpatient Rehabilitation Facility

(Pediatric Division) 

Established in 2003, Health Force's Outpatient Pediatric Rehabilitation Facility has strived to be the parent's first choice in care for their child. The Medicare Certified Facility is the only facility in the community providing a full scope of pediatric therapy services in the Victoria, Texas area.  The facility is privately owned and operated with an enthusiasm for community dependability.

The pediatric facility offers the latest innovative therapy in South Texas, offering physical, occupational and speech therapy. Team members are selected not only for their high level of professional competence, but also for their caring attitude that exemplifies the patient-oriented culture of Health Force.

Health Force Outpatient Pediatric Rehabilitation provides outpatient rehabilitative care to children who have physical and/or learning challenges due to illness, injury or congenital causes. Patients come to us with an array of conditions including:

 

Cerebral Palsy	Orthopedic Conditions	Neuromuscular Disease Brain Injury
Spinal Cord Injury	Congenital Abnormalities	Sensory Integrative Dysfunction
Arthritis	Autism Spectrum Disorders	Speech & Hearing Disorders
Spina Bifida	Excessive Drooling	Motor & Developmental Delays
ADHD	Downs Syndrome	Feeding & Swallowing Difficulties
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Speech Therapy
Our staff is very knowledgeable in alternate and augmentative communication, which may include but not be limited to sign language, communication boards, picture exchange communication systems. Our Speech therapists assess disorders and provide treatment specific to each child's special needs.

Vitalstim
We are proud to offer VitalStim, which is a specialized form of neuromuscular electrical stimulation that retrains the pharyngeal muscles in the throat, essentially reeducating the functional muscle use patterns necessary to initiate or reestablish swallowing.

Physical Therapy
Our physical therapists address the gross motor and sensory needs of the children in order to maximize their ability to negotiate their environment as safely and independently as possible. Treatments usually occur in our bright and cheerful treatment space where the children have the opportunity to utilize a variety of therapeutic equipment including the Therasuit Method of Therapy.

Therasuit
Through the system of elastic rubber bands, a patient's body is aligned to as close to normal as possible. This restoration of posture and proper function of postural muscles allows the patient to learn proper patterns of movement.

Occupational Therapy
Occupational therapy helps children achieve their maximum function and independence in various areas of daily living skills. Therapy addresses improving fine motor skills, visual-perception/motor skills, handwriting skills and sensory integration and coordination. The therapists look at a variety of perceptual and neuromuscular factors that influence function and behavior. Sensory integrative techniques may be used to help promote t he child's ability to organize all the senses for improved responses for attention to ask and skills to control their behavior as well as motor responses.

 

Sensory Integration:

For most children, sensory integration develops in the course of ordinary childhood activities. Motor planning ability is a natural outcome of the process, as is the ability to adapt to incoming sensations. But for some children, sensory integration does not develop as efficiently as it should. When the process is disordered, a number of problems in learning, development, or behavior may become evident.

If therapy is recommended, the child will be guided through activities that challenge his or her ability to respond appropriately to sensory input by making a successful, organized response. Training of specific skills is not usually the focus of this kind of therapy. Adaptive physical education, movement education and gymnastics are examples of services that typically focus on specific motor skills training. Such services are important, but they are not the same as therapy using a sensory integrative approach.

Therapeutic Listening: ...click to download brochure...

Therapeutic Listening is an auditory intervention that uses the organized sound patterns inherent in music to impact all levels of the nervous system.

Auditory information from Therapeutic Listening CDs provides direct input to both the vestibular and the auditory portions of the vestibular-cochlear continuum.

Blending sound intervention strategies with vestibulo-proprioceptive, core development, and breath activities so as to sustain grounding and centering of the body and mind in space and time.

Therapeutic Listening utilizes numerous CDs that vary in musical style, types of filtering, and level of complexity.

The music on Therapeutic Listening CDs is electronically altered to elicit the orienting response which sets up the body for sustained attention and active listening.

Child must be evaluated by an Occupational Therapist certified in Therapeutic Listening. 

Health Force is ready when you need us. We have your children's excellent health as our goal. When you are serving your own community, you work harder to provide quality and proficient service because it’s your business and your reputation. Health Force Comprehensive Outpatient Rehabilitation Facility is located at 4206 Retama Circle in Victoria, Texas. The companies can be reached by dialing locally 361-582-0611.