We offer comprehensive brain injury programs that cover the continuum of care. Every treatment plan is unique to the individual, not one size fits all. We are dedicated to:
- Helping individuals return to function in their family and/or work environments
- Striving to help people achieve the highest level of independence possible
- Ensuring a successful transition from acute care to rehabilitation treatment
- Providing brain injury programs and support at all levels, from outpatient to long term residential programs
Every person's medical situation is unique so our treatment plans are fully customized to each patient's needs. Pate's individualized, holistic treatment honors the whole person, including personality, likes and dislikes, hobbies, family life and profession.
Pate is able to assist with transportation in many but not all situations. The transportation team can pick you up before treatment and return you home after treatment.
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Post-Acute Day Neuro (Outpatient)
This program offers treatment from 9:00-3:30 pm Monday through Friday with opportunities to modify individual schedules based on treatment needs or other factors when necessary. During daily therapy, patients receive personal attention in a compassionate environment that encourages success.
Each patient’s treatment is specifically designed around his or her unique needs and goals, offering a clear plan for reinforcing daily living skills and encouraging leisure activities. Each personalized plan is focused on not only improving the patient’s mobility, communication, and cognitive abilities, but also enhancing adaptive behaviors. We also provide additional support with counseling for patients, families, and couples. Treatment centers are located in Dallas, Fort Worth and Anna, TX.
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Post-Acute Residential (Inpatient)
Our transitional inpatient brain injury program is designed for patients who are medically stable, yet require 24-hour individualized rehabilitation to return to their highest level of independence. During rehab, patients live with us in a safe, supervised environment that provides round the clock care. The program focuses on areas such as physical functioning, communication, cognitive treatment, daily living activities, community integration, leisure activities, psychological adjustment and behavior management. Patients and families work together with our staff to tailor a program specific to their needs. Our residences are located in Irving, Fort Worth and Anna, Texas.
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Supported Living Residential
We provide long term residents in this program with a safe, secure, and relaxing rural environment where they receive specialized care and support in the least restrictive way possible.
We work closely with families, healthcare providers, insurance companies and the resident to create an individual program of life-long support that is sensitive to financial considerations and promotes the best outcome. Located in Anna, northeast of McKinney, Texas.
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Stroke Rehabilitation Program
Pate offers the only CARF-accredited Post Acute Stroke Specialty Program in North Texas. Designed for patients who need brain injury programs that focus on the unique challenges posed by stroke, the program's goal is helping people regain the highest independence level possible. We offer family support and education, adaptations for home and work environments if needed, and a driver rehabilitation program for all medically qualified patients.
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Spanish Services
Pate Rehabilitation provides the same specialized care and support in Spanish as we do in English. Spanish-speaking therapists and caregivers work with each patient and family to develop personalized brain injury programs and tailored plans for better results. This includes therapies conducted in Spanish-speaking environments, enabling patients to practice these skills in their own cultural communities. Our research includes ongoing clinical studies that focus on improving rehabilitation results specifically for diverse groups including Spanish speakers. Read More
Types of Therapy
Physical Therapy
Physical therapy helps patients improve mobility, reduce pain, and restore function through therapeutic exercise and functional training, and the use of assistive and adaptive devices and equipment.
Physical therapy covers many skills and includes:
- Gait training
- Balance
- Strengthening and core-stabilizing activities
- Reintroduction to physical activities such as walking and running by removing the fear of falling
Occupational Therapy
Our occupational therapists (OTs) help patients regain everyday skills, including:
- Grooming and dressing
- Handling money, paying bills
- Hobbies & leisure
- Shopping
- Home upkeep
- Cooking
- Driving
From hand dexterity to fine motor skills, OTs work to re-integrate patients into their home, work and school environments. They also focus on evaluating these environments and then recommending adaptations to the environment to fit the person’s lifestyle, whether it's assistive technologies or task changes. They provide guidance and education for family members, employers and caregivers to assist in the healing process.
Speech/Language Therapy
Our speech/language pathologists help patients regain the ability to:
- Understand simple and complex conversations
- Produce speech that can be understood by others
- Communicate meaningfully
- Function successfully in social communication situations
- Manage conversational norms
Therapeutic exercises target speech muscle strengthening, language-focused training and strategy development, and social conversation training. For those patients who have swallowing and eating difficulties, speech/language pathologists target muscle stimulation, strengthening, and coordination to regain the ability to swallow safely.
Cognitive Rehabilitation
Our treatment teams provide cognitive rehabilitation that is evidence-based, meaning our approaches are backed by years of scientific studies and research.
When our treatments are combined with functional, individualized therapy activities, it enhances each patient's best potential to recover their most important brain skills and abilities, such as memory, attention, and problem solving just to name a few.
Behavioral Therapy
Our psychologists and behavioral analysts assist patients struggling with depression and frustration, and help them replace maladaptive and sometimes self-destructive behaviors with new, more appropriate actions that make it easier to create an environment of success for themselves. Instead of punishment, Pate's approach is rewards-based and encouraging, helping to modify and reinforce behaviors positively.
Vocational Rehabilitation
Many of our patients want to return to work. Our vocational rehabilitation staff members, led by a PhD-level vocational specialist, evaluate and assess each patient to successfully re-enter the working world. By conducting in-depth professional evaluations to determine the person’s abilities and interests, our specialists help patients not only learn and practice everything from workplace behaviors to interview skills, but also help them understand their own unique abilities and challenges to return to their previous job or identify new career, volunteer or educational options.
Aquatic Therapy
Many patients find the therapy pool to be the first place they can move without pain. The pool is equipped with many aquatic therapy features to aid recovery:
• Adjustable depth to increase or decrease weight bearing and increase stability
• Strategically placed jets to create resistance and
work on patient stability and range of limb motion
• Treadmill at the bottom of the pool, including a camera and monitor, for instant feedback relating to gait and balance
• Water temperature between 88-90 degrees to promote joint flexibility and mobility, relieve pain, decrease muscle spasms and increase muscle relaxation
Counseling
Counseling is offered to individuals, families and caregivers. The counselor provides support and guidance to allow the individual to increase their awareness and acceptance of thoughts and feelings. Many people experience depression, anxiety, and other common emotional reactions in response to a traumatic event. Counseling offers a safe and supportive environment that allows for emotional processing, coping and adjustment. For families, counseling can help process emotions, create healthy coping strategies, encourage understanding and strengthen bonds. Pate offers:
- Individual counseling
- Couples counseling
- Family counseling
- Substance abuse counseling
- Group counseling
- Support groups
Neuropsychological Testing
Pate's emphasis on neuropsychology in brain injury programs and rehabilitation is unique. Neuropsychology focuses on how the brain influences thinking. The first step we offer our patients is a comprehensive evaluation to assess overall brain function:
• Intellectual functioning
• Attention and concentration
• Speech and language
• Verbal and visual memory
• Problem solving and judgement
• Emotional functioning and personality assessment
The results of this advanced testing give our therapists deeper insight into the individual's brain function and provide a foundation for our therapy plans. Our psychologists and neuropsychologists oversee these plans on an ongoing basis to evaluate progress and make adjustments when needed.
Driver Rehabilitation Training and Evaluation
Pate Rehabilitation is among a small number of organizations who employ Driver Rehabilitation Specialists certified by the Association for Driver Rehabilitation Specialists (ADED).
Driver training and evaluation is included in the rehabilitation program for individuals who meet certain criteria. The program does not utilize a simulator. On-the-road training helps participants regain their independence.
Pet Therapy
Animals have a special way of connecting to people with brain injuries. They offer comfort, cuddling and can motivate patients to become more physically active. Grooming a dog or playing fetch helps patients improve their motor skills. It's also more fun to take a walk with a pet when encouraging people to begin moving. Pate's pet therapy brightens everyone's day (including our therapists). The pet program is an activity that is provided by volunteer pet therapy organizations and they rotate periodically through our locations.
Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
Pate partners with Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation physicians associated with the Physiatry Associates of Texas and physician with Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Ft. Worth. Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation physicians visit Pate weekly/bi-weekly to meet the rehabilitation medical needs of patients.
Rehabilitation Teams
Patients admit to Pate brain injury programs at various levels. Using our own unique systematic assessment program called Pate Environmentally Relevant Program Outcome System, or PERPOS, patients receive a score that will indicate the best fit to one of our three teams so treatment is tailored to their current skills and provides peer support.
- Functional Independence Treatment Team –  FITT
- Transition to Independent Living Skills Team – TRILS
- Independent Living Skills Team – ILS