Piedmont Hospital offers patients Therapeutic Recreation Services to reduce the effects of illness or disability through recreation and leisure activities. 

Certified Therapeutic Recreation Specialists (CTRS) use a wide range of activities and community based interventions and techniques to improve:

• Physical
• Cognitive
• Emotional
• Social and
• Leisure needs of their patients  

Therapeutic recreation help patients learn to:

• Access Community Resources and programs
• Adapt leisure skills/techniques to their situation
• Practice safety techniques
• Adjust to disability
• Overcome architectural barriers
• Learn to problem solve

Therapeutic Recreation improves patients functioning and keeps them as active, healthy and independent as possible in their chosen leisure pursuits for increased quality of life.

For more information about Therapeutic Recreation call Dayle Gordon, Therapeutic Recreation Specialist, at 404-605-2033.