Maintenance Therapy

Years and years of working exclusively with MS has taught the team at 810 MS Specialty Center a lot.  One thing we know for certain, is that you can get stronger and feel better even if you have MS.  Improving one’s function and reversing decline is what we do best.  Maintaining those gains can be quite challenging in the current healthcare environment of episodic, or start-and-stop, care.  Often times home exercise programs are not advantageous for someone with MS due to the dynamic nature of the disease.  At 810 MS Center we address this challenge by offering all of our patients the option to stay in our program and continue with their care.  Many of our patients have experienced the benefits of physical, cognitive or occupational therapy only to regress after discharge.

Our MS specialists, who are doctors of physical therapy, will continue to monitor and assess your progress even after your insurance no longer pays.  Continuation of care may better describe our maintenance therapy program. We will change your plan of care even when you are in this phase of the program. This will give you the best opportunity to continue progressing and prevent functional decline.

At 810 Multiple Sclerosis Specialty Center, our goal is to do whatever it takes to prevent regression and reverse functional decline.  We are committed to that mission and our maintenance-therapy-program speaks for itself. Our MS specialists will provide you with:

• Ongoing and constant oversight as to allow you to perform your routine effectively and safely.
• Objective and/or subjective assessment at the start of every session to determine if your current plan of care is appropriate.
• Changes to your care, while in this phase, if your team determines that alterations of your routine are warranted.
• Education and monitoring of your outcome measures to determine if you require to be moved out of maintenance phase and back into the skilled phase of the program.
• Exercises that you will perform with our specialists to improve your overall walking pattern, strength, cardiopulmonary efficiency and mobility capacity.