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Reduce pain and restore your strength and confidence with the help of Ochsner Therapy & Wellness.
At Ochsner, you’ll receive a comprehensive assessment, a customized treatment plan, and personal attention – everything you need to return to the highest level of function possible. Our highly skilled physical, occupational and speech therapy teams work with both children and adults to restore loss of function associated with illness, injuries, developmental disorders or the process of aging.
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As one of the largest and most experienced out-patient rehabilitation centers in Louisiana, we offer a level of experience you just can’t find anywhere else. There is no condition we haven’t treated – nothing we haven’t seen before. Plus, our team holds an impressive number of specialty certifications and post-graduate degrees. With the latest diagnostic tools, top-rate exercise equipment, innovative techniques and a team who puts you first, Ochsner Therapy & Wellness provides a level of care second to none.
Conditions We Treat at Ochsner Therapy & Wellness:
- Ankle and foot pain
- Amputation
- Arthritis
- Bladder or bowel dysfunction
- Brain injury
- Cancer
- Concussion
- Cerebral palsy
- Dysphagia
- Elbow pain
- Fibromyalgia (post surgery)
- Hand pain
- Joint pain
- Knee pain
- Lymphedema
- Lupus
- Multiple sclerosis (MS)
- Muscular dystrophy
- Musculoskeletal injuries
- Neck and back pain
- Osteoporosis
- Parkinson’s disease
- Sciatic pain (sciatica)
- Shoulder pain
- Spina bifida
- Spinal cord injury
- Spinal stenosis
- Speech and language disorders
- Sports-related injuries
- Stroke
- Tendonitis
- Vestibular/balance disorders (such as vertigo)
- Work-related injuries
- Wound care
- Wrist pain
Preventative Care
When you improve your muscular strength and function and reduce pain symptoms, you’ll be able to keep doing the things you love for years to come. Our expert clinicians promote education, wellness, fitness, and performance enhancement.
Driving Evaluations
If you have experienced decreased strength, range of motion or endurance, limb loss, impaired cognitive skills, or slower reflexes, you may be wondering if you should still be driving. Our team can help you make a determination.
Ochsner Fitness Center
When your therapy is completed here, you can keep up your routine at Ochsner Fitness Center. Learn more.
Convenient Locations
With more than a dozen locations offering a variety of specialties and same-day appointments, Ochsner Therapy & Wellness can help your recover – faster.
To schedule an appointment near you, call 504-842-4348.
We accept Medicare, Medicaid and most major insurance plans.
Sports Physical Therapy Residency Program
Ochsner Health System is committed to our mission: We Serve, Heal, Lead, Educate, and Innovate.
In order to provide expert level physical therapy treatment to the community, Ochsner is pleased to announce the development of a post-graduate residency program to develop advanced practitioners in the field of sports physical therapy. The program will focus on presenting the most current, evidence-based curriculum possible, while providing mentorship by highly trained, board-certified therapists, and collaborating with some of the most well-respected physicians in our region.
Graduates of the Ochsner Sports Physical Therapy Residency will be well prepared to sit for the Sports Specialty examination (SCS), along with becoming an integral part of the community through the creation of research, and community outreach.
Our residency program will be 13 months long and begin in November 2019.
Application coming soon.
