Check out this new brace for walking with foot drop! People with foot drop can’t lift the front part of their foot due to weakness or paralysis of the muscles that pick up the toes. Lots of people have foot drop and it can happen when foot muscles become weak after stroke, brain injury, multiple sclerosis, neuropathy or other injuries. Foot […]
Speech Therapy Helps Dysphagia Did you know that 89% of people with Brain Injury, Stroke, MS, and Parkinson’s Disease have trouble with speech and swallowing? Do You Have: Changes in your voice? Difficulty or pain while swallowing? Feel like something is stuck in your throat after eating? Do you cough or choke when you swallow? […]
Thanks to all the volunteers who helped make the Ambucs Therapy Bike Build a huge success! A record number of bikes were assembled and distributed to disabled children and adults. These bikes give people who are unable to operate a traditional bike the fun and freedom of riding their own bike. As therapists, we know […]
Speech Therapy helps life without words. Communication is not only how we interact with the world, it is how the world interacts with us. Imagine you suddenly lost your ability to understand speech, to talk, to read, and to write but you had NOT lost your intelligence. Imagine how everyday tasks would suddenly become difficult. […]
June is Aphasia Awareness Month and speech therapy can help! What is aphasia? It is a communication disorder that interferes with a person’s ability to use or understand words. It results from damage or injury to language parts of the brain. Damage can occur from stroke, brain injury, dementia or other disorders of the brain. Aphasia does […]
Ambucs Bike Build Members of the local Semper Fi Riding Club were some of the volunteers who assembled adaptive bikes for people with limited mobility at the Ambucs bike build. Being mobile is vital to the health and welfare of people with movement disorders such as stroke, spinal cord injury or cerebral palsy. It is very rewarding to be a […]