Specialized Therapies

Low-vision training can improve your safety and independence and enhance your ability to interact and socialize with others. If you have macular degeneration, glaucoma, cataracts, or other visual impairments the experts at Novant Health can help you better use the vision you have.  

We’ll evaluate your eyesight to determine techniques, eye exercises, or assistive devices designed to make activities of daily life easier for you. Through lighting, magnification, exercises, and proven techniques, we’ll help you reduce your frustration or fear around everyday activities. You need a referral from your optometrist or ophthalmologist to participate in the low-vision program.  

When you have physical, visual, cognitive, or perceptual impairments, driving rehabilitation training can help you return to independence. Our occupational therapists offer clinical and on-road evaluations of your ability to drive safely, recommendations of specialized equipment to make safe driving possible, and on-road driver’s training based on assessed driving needs and skills. 

If you have had a stroke, amputation, spinal cord injury, diabetes, heart condition, neurological impairment or age-related loss of function, you may be a good candidate for the program. A physician’s approval is necessary for enrollment. 

If you have suffered a spinal cord injury, our interdisciplinary approach and state-of-the-art care can help you achieve your highest level of independence. After a hospital stay, we provide intensive rehabilitation by certified rehabilitation nurses and other experienced staff. Services may include skin care training, toilet training, bowel and bladder training, wheelchair fitting and instruction, and instruction in daily living activities. 

If you need expert advice on what wheelchair, scooter, or specialized cushion system is best for you, our wheelchair and seating specialists can help. You’ll have an opportunity to test-drive various wheelchairs and cushions while being evaluated by a physical therapist. Vendors will be on hand to answer your questions. Keeping your needs in mind, our experts will provide recommendations and follow up with you after you leave. 

Many sports-related injuries can be treated by our physical therapy experts, without surgery. If you need help recovering from orthopedic surgery, such as a knee or hip replacement, our sports medicine and orthopedic physical therapists are trained to help you regain your strength, flexibility, stability, and endurance as quickly as possible. You may receive a tailored rehabilitation plan for your specific needs before you leave the hospital or surgery center. 

Our specialized women’s physical therapy programs offer treatment and relief for health conditions specific to women, including urinary incontinence, vaginismus/vulvadynia, cystocele/prolapse, chronic pelvic pain and painful intercourse, pregnancy-related problems and post-cancer treatment complications. 

Our physical therapists are specifically trained in rehabilitation and can help relieve a number of conditions that cause men pain or severe discomfort such as pelvic pain, groin pain, testicular pain and post-prostatectomy issues, including pelvic floor and rectal dysfunction. 

Whether you are newly diagnosed or far along in your treatment, cancer rehabilitation and wellness is an important step on the road to recovery. We offer a variety of programs, group classes, and private appointments to help restore your best possible quality of life. 

Lymphedema, or swelling in the arms or legs because of a lymph node blockage, may be a side effect of your cancer surgery. In this specially designed clinical program, your certified lymphedema therapist may use techniques like manual lymphatic massage, exercise, and compression bandaging to help you manage this condition. 

Recovering from a heart attack, heart surgery, or other cardiac medical procedure can feel challenging. The expert cardiac rehabilitation clinicians at Novant Health can help you during your recovery so you can lead a longer, healthier life. Available for heart disease patients of all ages, our cardiac rehabilitation program is offered at many locations throughout North Carolina. 

If you are recovering from a pulmonary condition, we want to help you breathe easier. At Novant Health, our outpatient pulmonary rehabilitation programs provide comprehensive individualized care that is proven to enhance your strength, endurance, and breathing ability.  Our experts also specialize in reducing the symptoms of lung disease. You’ll also find smoking cessation and education classes at some of our locations.