Optima Therapies offers a variety of services for inpatients, outpatients, and home-bound patients of all ages with orthopedic, neurologic, traumatic, medical, industrial, or developmental disorders. The team of physical therapists, occupational therapists, and speech language pathologists, offer services at multiple locations in Lincoln County.

Optima Therapies is committed to providing quality care in a cost-effective manner. With a strong emphasis on communication between therapists, client, and physician, our goal is to help clients reach their optimum level of health and performance. Our staff provide evaluations and treatments as needed and design specific programs to meet individual client needs.

Optima Therapies offers:

• Industrial rehabilitation services including functional capacity evaluations, pre-employment screenings and work hardening/work conditioning programs to assess and rehabilitate injured employees and help them return to work.
• Physical therapy services for movement and strengthening and specialty services such as wound care, incontinence treatment, and aquatic therapy.
• Occupational therapy services to improve arm/hand function; activities of daily living such as dressing, bathing, and cooking; visual-perceptual skills, and specialized manual treatment for lymphedema (excessive swelling of the limbs).
• Speech therapy services to improve communication skills including speaking, listening, reading, writing; and specialized services such as signing, augmentative communication systems, voice prosthesis training, modified barium swallow studies and Vital Stim therapy to assess and treat swallowing disorders.
• Pediatric therapy services to address developmental delays in motor, speech and language, social, and cognitive skills, provided on an individual and/or group basis by highly skilled physical, occupational, and speech therapists, in the clinic, at home, or at day care.
• Athletic training services for student athletes to excel at their game including sports physicals partnering with physician offices, treatment of sports injuries, specialty sports camps and athletic programming and services for recreational programs for children with disabilities.
• Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation programs to improve endurance functional breathing and independence in daily activities. Programs include the six week outpatient pulmonary rehabilitation program and the community-based cardiopulmonary follow-up exercise program.

Carolinas Medical Center-Lincoln is a participating provider of most insurance companies, workers' compensation carriers and preferred provider networks. It is Medicare and Medicaid certified and will file all patient insurance claims.

For more information about Optima Therapies of Carolinas Medical Center-Lincoln, call 704-732-5548.