Overview
The Lovelace rehabilitation difference
We believe in making you, not just your rehabilitation, the focus of your treatment. We care about your quality of life and your goals. We care about providing you with the highest quality of care, using the best technology and the best physicians. We pride ourselves on providing a multidisciplinary care team.
Our treatment programs are intensive and coordinated to help you regain and maintain as much independence as possible in an effort to return you to a healthy lifestyle.
Physical Therapy
Dedicated to helping patients achieve their rehabilitation goals
The goal of our dedicated rehabilitation team is to provide greater strength, endurance, balance, coordination, range of motion and mobility to patients who are recovering from injuries or surgeries, as well as patients with bone, muscle and nerve disorders.
- Aquatics programs
- Balance and vestibular rehabilitation
- Brain injury program
- Breast cancer rehabilitation
- Certified wheelchair evaluations
- Concussion therapy and testing program
- Continence program
- Fall prevention
- Foot and ankle rehabilitation
- Gynecological Cancer Rehabilitation Program
- Hand and upper extremity rehabilitation
- Interventional pain clinic
- Lymphedema program
- Massage therapy
- Neurological disorders
- Neuropsychology
- Pelvic floor rehabilitation
- Pregnancy and Postpartum Program
- Psychology
- Runner's Clinic
- Spinal cord injury
- Sports injuries
- Sports Metrics™ ACL Injury Prevention Program
- Stroke program
Occupational Therapy
Our goal is to get patients back to living their best lives
Our highly-skilled occupational therapists are qualified to treat patients recovering from:
- Neurological degenerative diseases
- Orthopedic injuries
- Spinal cord injury
- Stroke
- Traumatic brain injuries
Occupational Health
We are committed to providing education on workplace safety, body mechanics and ergonomics to prevent injuries before they happen. We understand that prevention is safer, easier and more cost effective than rehabilitation, surgeries or other medical treatments.
Functional testing, functional capacity evaluations and ergonomic analyses are offered to ensure a healthy work force. We perform thorough and multifaceted evaluations to match the worker's physical abilities to the critical physical demands of the work.
The benefits of testing include:
- Injury prevention
- Empowering employees and employers to intervene when work activities bring on symptoms or problems - before there is a need for time off of work
- Test objectively the worker's physical abilities
- Develop work rehab programs that increase the employee's ability to return to regular job duties
SLP
Speech-Language Pathology
The outpatient speech-language pathology department offers a wide range of services related to the evaluation and treatment of speech, language and cognitive issues in adult and pediatric populations (over 2 years of age). We utilize a multidisciplinary approach and consult with physicians on an ongoing basis during treatment.
Voice & Dysphagia Program
Lovelace UNM Rehabilitation Hospital's Voice & Dysphagia program is a unique outpatient speech-language pathology program that evaluates and treats swallow and/or voice impairments related to a variety of diagnoses or impairments.
Voice Disorders
In partnership with referring otolaryngologists, the Voice & Dysphagia program is equipped to evaluate and treat a wide variety of disorders.
- Voice evaluation with use of instrumentation, including VisiPitch software and equipment
- Voice recording and analysis
- Voice laryngostroboscopy
- Flexible and/or rigid laryngoscopy for vocal fold imaging and visual biofeedback
- Lee Silverman Voice Treatment LOUD therapy
Dysphagia
The Lovelace Voice & Dysphagia program provides evaluation and treatment of swallowing issues related to a variety of diagnoses. Among the most commonly seen are neurological impairments, traumatic brain injury, progressive diseases and head and neck cancer.
- “Bedside Swallow Assessment”
- Fiberoptic Endoscopic Evaluation of Swallow (FEES)
- Video swallow capabilities
- Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulation technique, in conjunction with specific exercises to strengthen the impaired muscle function
- Visual biofeedback with the use of nasoendoscopy
- Education and training for patients and caregivers regarding diet precautions and compensatory strategies
Parkinson's Program
Outpatient Parkinson's Therapy Program
We are pleased to offer a two-part speech therapy program to help individuals with Parkinson's regain and maintain effective communication: SPEAK OUT!® followed by The LOUD Crowd®.
SPEAK OUT!® places emphasis on speaking with intent and converting speech from an automatic function to an intentional act. Together, patients and their speech-language pathologist work through a series of speech, voice and cognitive exercises outlined in a SPEAK OUT!® Workbook.
Forever Maintenance Program
Upon completion of SPEAK OUT!®, patients transition to The LOUD Crowd®. This maintenance program consists of weekly group sessions led by a speech-language pathologist. The SPEAK OUT!® exercises are performed, and group members provide support, encouragement and accountability to one another.
Participation in The LOUD Crowd®, along with daily home practice and six month re-evaluations, has been shown to help patients maintain their communication skills throughout the progression of Parkinson's.
For more information about SPEAK OUT!® and The LOUD Crowd® please call 505.727.4725.
Physical Therapy for Parkinson's
Physical therapy teams utilize LSVT BIG to increase movement from head to toe to improve walking, balance and other activities of daily living.