The treatment modes are passive and best carried out while you relax. Range of motion is improved without practice. Muscle tone and muscle bulk is frequently increased without resistive exercise. We have chosen, in general, to provide a very intense program in our clinic for a brief period of usually 2 weeks, then send the patient home with a program designed to continue the improvement begun and maintain any improvements made during the 2 week treatment period. Home programs are simple and do not require personnel who are technically trained or who have special abilities.
Equipment required for home program activity is minimal and very inexpensive.
In the field of rehabilitation Ed Snapp, P.T, primarily directs our efforts. Mr. Snapp is a graduate of University of Texas Medical Branch, School of Physical Therapy at Galveston, Texas, 1947. He has been in continuous practice of physical therapy since that time in general practice with major emphasis on rehabilitation. Consultant in establishing the Harris County Respiratory Center and subsequently the Texas Institute for Rehabilitation and Research. Mr. Snapp designed and produced much of the equipment used in that facility.