What is Occupational Therapy?
Occupational therapy helps individuals perform tasks in their daily living and working environments. When accidents, disease, or other difficulties inhibit one’s ability to engage in routine activities, occupational therapy assists by promoting, restoring, maintaining or modifying life skills.
Occupational therapists are educated in human growth and development with specific emphasis placed on the social, emotional, and physiological effects of illness and injury. Practitioners must have a graduate degree from an accredited program, complete supervised clinical internships in a variety of health care settings, and pass a national exam for certification. Our staff regularly attends continuing education courses to provide current evidence-based treatments for our patients.
Occupational therapists treat conditions that are physically, mentally, developmentally or emotionally disabling. We focus on helping a person improve basic motor functions and reasoning abilities; we also help patients compensate for permanent loss of function. Individuals can lead more independent, productive, and satisfying lives through treatments that address:
- self care (dressing, bathing, eating)
- participating in work or school
- care of one’s surroundings: (attending children, shopping, managing the home)
- enjoying recreation and leisure
- engaging in social activities
Services We Provide
- Customized treatment programs to improve performance of daily activities
- Performance Skills Assessments & Treatment
- Visual Perception, Eye-Hand Coordination & Handwriting Skills
- Adaptive Equipment Recommendations & Usage Training
- Home & Job Site Evaluations with Adaptation Recommendations
- Hand Splinting / Strengthening / Post-Operative Care
- Guidance to Family Members & Caregivers
- Guidance to Employers
- Ergonomic/Workplace Assessments
- Pediatric Occupational Therapy addresses the “occupations” of being a child (play, self-care, daily routines, classroom participation, community settings)
Conditions We Treat
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