Why Choose Us
Learn more about Good Shepherd Rehabilitation Hospital, a destination for recovery for stroke, brain injury, spinal cord injury and complex medical rehabilitation.
Good Shepherd’s physicians and certified therapists customize outpatient rehabilitation and exercise plans around your specific needs, teaching you how to continue leading an active lifestyle.
From LSVT BIG® to Rock Steady Boxing, using bigger body movements to translate to real-world, everyday activities.
At Good Shepherd, we know that each individual with Parkinson’s disease has unique abilities and medical needs. Here, we work with you to develop goals and the appropriate treatment plan to help you reach them.
Our clinical staff brings a comprehensive, multi-disciplinary approach to the patient care management of Parkinson’s disease. Patient-centered care is coordinated among physical medicine & rehabilitation, occupational therapy, physical therapy, speech and recreation therapy in collaboration with the referring physician.
After a thorough evaluation and development of a plan of care, the treatment plan may consist of: flexibility and strengthening exercises; fitness (aerobic) activities; strategies to improve mobility, such as walking; strategies to improve self-care activities; handwriting; stress management; instruction in cognitive strategies; speech training in swallowing; and, Lee Silverman Voice Treatment (LSVT)- Big and Loud programs.
Lee Silverman Voice Training (LSVT) BIG® is an individualized therapeutic approach to help people with Parkinson’s disease recalibrate their movements by producing bigger motions.
Good Shepherd’s LSVT BIG certified physical therapists customize treatment plans around your specific needs. We craft individual goals to help with balance, getting up and down, dressing, job-related tasks and other activities of daily living.
LSVT BIG teaches you how to continue leading an active lifestyle.
Lee Silverman Voice Training (LSVT) LOUD® is an individualized, evidence-based practice designed to improve speech for people diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. It also can help with other neurological conditions such as multiple sclerosis and stroke.
Good Shepherd’s LSVT LOUD certified speech-language pathologists lead the highly repetitious therapy program. It promotes neuroplasticity, which is the brain’s ability to rewire neural connections and adapt over time.
Parkinson’s commonly affects people’s ability to communicate, which leads to soft voice, monotone or mumbled speech. Often, there is a disconnect between how loud you believe you’re speaking and how you sound to others.
With LSVT LOUD, patients learn how to maximize their speech/voice production.
Good Shepherd’s Rock Steady Boxing program features boxing-inspired, noncontact exercise training specifically for people with Parkinson’s disease. Led by certified staff, participants train on boxing equipment including heavy bags, jump ropes, gloves and focus mitts. Fight back against Parkinson’s.
$10 per session.
To get started, call 610.776.3482 or email lehighvalley@rsbaffiliate.com. Or, contact us online.
Good Shepherd's team of outpatient physiatrists are experts in physical medicine and rehabilitation.
To learn more about Parkinson's Disease Rehabilitation, please fill out the form below or call 1-888-447-3422 (44-REHAB).