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Physical
Therapy
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Physical therapy
services focus on preserving, developing and restoring physical
function that may have been lost due to injury, disease, aging
or congenital abnormality. This type of therapy is for gross
motor skills and is used to decrease spacticity, strengthen
underlying muscles, and teach proper or functional motor patterns.
Our licensed physical therapists incorporate therapeutic exercise,
physical agents such as heat or cold, assistive or adaptive
devices, such as walkers or bracing; and specialized manual
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Treatments focus on: Improving
gross and fine motor skills Improving balance and coordination
Improving strength and endurance Improving cognitive and sensory
processing/integration Encouraging motor development in children
Encouraging independence at work, home, school and in the
community Improving functional mobility Increasing range of
motion (flexibility) Incorporating safety, prevention and
education Promoting fitness and health Treatments focus on
improving gross and fine motor skills, balance and coordination,
strength and endurance as well as. Children with developmental
delays, cerebral palsy, spina bifida, and torticollis are
a few of the patients treated by pediatric physical therapists.
For more information please email maindesk@discoveringnewheights.com
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Discovering
New Heights Therapy
1783 Meriden-Waterbury Road
P.O. Box 786
Milldale,
CT 06467
Phone: (860)426-2298
Fax: (860)426-9810
maindesk@discoveringnewheights.com
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