I would never go here again. My son, 7 years old, had surgery and an external fixator placed on his hip/leg. His surgeon was assured they could help and treat him and help him recovery fully. We were sent here because insurance would not pay for him to go to Loma Linda Rehabilitation or San Antonio Rehabilitation.
Our therapist treated my son, in my opinion, as a geriatric patient. The first visit she never assessed his range of motion until I brought up it that it had to be done. Also, she was more concerned on getting his arm strength going and only showed those as exercises to be done at home until the next visit. I, on my own, created exercises for the first few weeks of treatment to get him moving because he needed to move his LEG not his ARMS. My kid is strong and physically active and was up to the point of surgery. Also, going against hospital discharge and doctors orders, she did not want him toe touch weight bearing at all. For the type of procedure my son had, he needed to get active and move. By her showing him he couldn't do these things and how to baby his leg, it set him back by weeks in recovery. I spent more time at home on my own figuring out how to move his leg and getting him active.
For weeks, we only spent time on a heat pad and doing a few stretching in clinic. I asked if I should be also stretching the hip and she told me no. I know now that was against what should be done for this type of surgery. The lack of communication she also provided with the surgeon was unacceptable. He was not pleased she was not doing the work that needed to be done with my son.
I will admit we had to cancel appointments and did show up late 2 times. The first visit it took me longer than expected to get there and one visit I had the wrong time. The other times, our therapist was LATE. They knew I had other things going on in the morning, and she would always be late to those appointments. In fact, the receptionist would call her saying we were here. One time she was 20 mins late, took a call in the therapy room (discussed patient information on phone and then told me about it after), and texted in the same visit. That stretching visit only lasted about 20 mins. They also made 3 appointments and NEVER told me they made them. One time I was leaving and they said we'd see us tomorrow. I had to turn around and let them know I had no idea about the appointment only to be told well, he is to be hear 5 times a week. Heck, I knew that, but I'm thinking you didn't make a set in stone days or hours for him. Another time they called my cell phone, left a message saying we could come the next day (they were telling me the day before and hadn't said anything about this appointment) but not at 11 so could we come at 12. Then called again an hour or so later saying they hadn't heard from me, so they were cancelling the 12 pm appt and putting us back at 11. There was another time the therapist didn't show up at all. 30 mins into the visit when were to see her, another therapist was assigned to us for that visit. She stepped in and did what the other one had done before. The next visit with this new one, she asked about the heating and what we thought about it. Finally after nearly 2 months there, my son got to do ACTIVE physical therapy. For his condition, he should have been much further at this point.
I know this is long, but seriously don't go here. If you get assigned, fight the insurance tooth and nail. This is not a facility for PHYSICALLY ACTIVE CHILDREN. I wasted my time and money here and wish I had fought harder. I am just glad I kept doing more and more at home than we did here. If you need to get your child moving, Precision Gymnastics in Rancho offers a great adaptive gymnastics class. I believe that helped him gain confidence moving with the fixator and seeing he could do more than sit in a wheel chair. And if I could, I'd give it no stars. read more