Hospital-based outpatient services include: occupational therapy, physical therapy and speech-language pathology for:

• Neurological Rehabilitation 
• Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine Rehabilitation 
• Hand Therapy Rehabilitation 

We also provide expertise to the Orthopaedic, Ear, Nose and Throat, Neurosciences and Oncology clinics, as well as Stanford Pain Management Center consultations.

The outpatient Hand Therapy Clinic is located in the Blake Wilbur building, and is staffed by certified hand therapists (CHT). The Hand Therapy Department can be reached at (650) 723-1702.

Physical therapists evaluate and treat patients to improve their strength, flexibility, coordination, balance and functional mobility skills. Treatment focuses on:

• Gait evaluation and training
• Functional mobility training (bed mobility and transfers)
• Balance assessment and training
• Neuromuscular re-education
• Therapeutic exercise (active assistive, resistive and range of motion exercises)
• General conditioning for the debilitated patient
• Pain evaluation and treatment
• Equipment prescription (ambulation devices and orthoses)

Occupational therapists evaluate and treat patients to improve functioning in daily life activities. Treatment focuses on:

• ADLs (activities of daily living)
• Swallow/dysphagia/self-feeding evaluation and treatment
• Functional mobility training (transfers and wheelchair mobility)
• Therapeutic positioning (contracture prevention and pressure relief)
• Equipment prescription (wheelchair, commode and adaptive aids)
• Splinting
• Energy conservation/work simplification
• Visual-perceptual screening/training 

Speech-language pathologists evaluate and treat patients to improve cognitive, swallowing and communication deficits.

Treatment focuses on:

• Communication retraining for aphasia, dysarthria, dysphonia or head/neck trauma
• Cognitive retraining
• Augmentative communication devices
• Trach weaning protocols/Passy–Muir speaking valves
• Swallow/dysphagia evaluation and treatment
• Instrumental swallow assessment (videofluoroscopy, FEES, FEEST)
• Post-laryngectomy communication options