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Rehabilitation Services Classes

Back/Neck Class

Location: John Muir Physical Rehabilitation, Rossmoor
Date: Please call
Time: Please call
Phone: 988-7595

This 1 - 1 1/2 hour class reviews good movement patterns for home and work. Participants learn ways to protect their backs from injury while bending, lifting, carrying and reaching overhead, as well as when driving and sitting at a computer. Opportunity to explore solutions to individual situations. Physician referral required.

Back/Neck Class

Location: John Muir Physical Rehabilitation, Walnut Creek
Date: Please call
Time: Please call
Phone: 947-5300

This 1 - 1 1/2 hour class reviews good movement patterns for home and work. Participants learn ways to protect their backs from injury while bending, lifting, carrying and reaching overhead, as well as when driving and sitting at a computer. Opportunity to explore solutions to individual situations. Physician referral required.

Balance Improvement Class

Location: John Muir Physical Rehabilitation, Walnut Creek
Date: Tuesdays and Fridays
Time: 1-2 p.m.
Phone: 947-5300

This class is for patients with mild balance impairments who want to continue exercising under the supervision of skilled therapists. Caretakers may need to be present if participants need assistance getting on or off equipment. Participants must meet the following criteria: Medical release signed by an M.D., stable vital signs (blood pressure, heart rate, respiration), six months or more after date of stroke (post cerebral vascular accident (stroke), completed treatment in a one-on-one therapy program.

Adaptive Driving Program

Location: John Muir Physical Rehabilitation, Walnut Creek
Date: Please call
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Phone: 947-5300

Behind-the-wheel assessment and training is offered for individuals with physical, visual, perceptual and cognitive deficits.

Back/Neck Class

Location: John Muir Physical Rehabilitation, Danville
Date: Please call
Time: Please call
Phone: 831-1414

This 1 - 1 1/2 hour class reviews good movement patterns for home and work. Participants learn ways to protect their backs from injury while bending, lifting, carrying and reaching overhead, as well as when driving and sitting at a computer. Opportunity to explore solutions to individual situations. Physician referral required.

Basic Pilates Mat Class

Location: John Muir Physical Rehabilitation, Walnut Creek
Date: Wednesdays
Time: 5:45-6:45 p.m.
Phone: 947-5300

Class is for former physical therapy patients for safely guiding patients toward rehabilitating an injury and transition into community classes. Taught by Pilates-certified physical therapists. Physician referral required.

Brain Injury Program

Location: John Muir Medical Center, Walnut Creek Campus
Date: Please call
Time: Please call
Phone: 941-5050

Specialized, multidisciplinary, rehabilitation staff provide a continuum of care and treatment to patients who have sustained a traumatic brain injury (TBI), Components include education, information and referral, task force, trauma protocol, brain injury protocol, TBI research group, community education, Brain Injury Survivor Group, "On-Track"collaboration with Mt. Diablo School District's community-based day program.

Biofeedback

Location: John Muir Physical Rehabilitation, Walnut Creek
Date: Please call
Time: Please call
Phone: 947-3224

Treatment using computer monitoring of muscle tension, skin temperature and other physical signs to retrain movement patterns and decrease pain from repetitive strain and associated injuries.  Biofeedback can also be used to treat chronic or migraine headaches, not associated with other disease processes

Neuropsychology/Memory Clinic

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Phone: 947-4296

Neuropsychology and speech pathology collaborative, comprehensive, outpatient clinical evaluations of cognitive functioning to identify areas of cognitive deficits and strategies for coping and/or remediation.. Assists in patient and family education in the course of their response to disability.

Rehabilitation Services Programs/Services

Swallowing Therapy

Location: Please call
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Time: Please call
Phone: 947-5300

Evaluation and treatment of swallowing dysfunction which may result in compromised nutrition, choking or aspiration. Performed by a licensed speech pathologist. Physician referral required

Hand Therapy

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Time: Please call
Phone: 947-3224

Our hand therapy team is led by highly skilled certified hand therapists (CHT). Individualized, comprehensive upper extremity treatment is available for repetitive strain injuries, trauma, industrial injuries and general hand injuries and conditions. Offered at all sites. Physician referral required.