Occupational Therapy
Occupational therapists use therapeutic approaches to restore and enhance each patient's living skills. Patients are trained to resume their daily routines, including: toileting, grooming, bathing, dressing, cooking, and working.
Patients Served
- Arthritis and rheumatic disease
- Amputation
- Brain tumor
- Breast cancer lymphedema
- Neuromuscular disease
- Spinal cord injury
- Stroke
- Total joint replacement and orthopedic surgery
- Upper extremity and/or hand injury
Services
- Evaluation and treatment of patients with neurological deficits following a stroke; upper extremity injuries and dysfunction; and for visual perception and cognitive function
- Assessing safety for independent living
- Community reintegration skills, including: money management, shopping, and the use of public transportation
- Hand Therapy: splinting, controlled range of motion exercises and edema control - for hand and upper extremity injuries, reconstructive surgery and burns
- Pre-vocational evaluation focusing on hand function, work skills, and simple work tasks
- Training for Activities of Daily Living: self-care and homemaking
- Work conditioning to prepare for returning to a daily work regimen
