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Occupational Therapy
What is OT?
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Occupational therapy is a rehabilitation therapy that promotes independence for return to work, completion of activities of daily living and participation in leisure activities after an injury or illness. Occupational therapists use goal-directed everyday activities to assist people to achieve independence when function is impaired by normal aging, illness, injury or developmental delay. Occupational therapy is for any person whose lives have been impaired by:
Our occupational therapists recognize the need to incorporate functional activities into one's daily routine to promote independence. They work with patients to achieve goals using such methods as specialized equipment or techniques, home exercise programs, home modification recommendations, caregiver education.
What is Occupational Therapy?
Occupational Therapy is a rehabilitative therapy that promotes independence for return to work, completion of activities of daily living, and participation in leisure activities after an injury or illness.
- Recognizes that need to incorporate functional activities into a person's daily routine to facilitate independence
- 'Occupation' meaning purposeful activity, i.e. what 'occupies' your time
- Independence through purposeful activity
Current Programs
Home Health Services
Our staff provides home health services for Pella and surrounding areas. Home Health Occupational Therapy assists with functional activities of daily living,home safety evaluations, and other conditions limiting independence in the individual's own environment.
Custom Splinting
Our Occupational Therapy staff is highly skilled in fabrication of thermoplastic splinting. Individualized splinting can be provided for various injuries such as:athletic injuries, fractures, tendon lacerations, repetitive motion injuries. We also provide the most current line of prefabricated "off the shelf" splints.
Out Patient Services
Services are provided for children and adults with injuries to the hands and elbows. Services are also provided for those who have suffered an injury or illness that has reduced the ability to perform activities of daily living.
Industry Rehab and On-site Therapy
Our staff provides worksite evaluations, pre-work screens, injury management, rehabilitation, educational programs, ergonomics, job description development, BTE(Baltimore Therapeutic Equipment), lifting, functional capacity evaluations and work hardening/work conditioning.
Elder Care
We offer a full line of wheel chair positioning evaluations, daily living activities and help train in the use of adaptive equipment. We also offer functional screening for needs and independent skills such as meals, grooming, dressing and driving.
New/Expanding Programs
Vestibular Rehabilitation
Ergonomics
Pediatrics
Since the work of children is play, it is through the use of this media that occupational therapists assist children in learning the skills necessary for living. Therapy can enhance the potential of a child throughout their developmental years and build skills, self-confidence, and self-esteem that lasts a lifetime.
Concerns often addressed include-
Drive Screening (Assessment of Driving-Related Skills)
Three key functions for safe driving are vision, cognition and motor
function.
The Assessment of Driving-Related Skills (ADReS) evaluates these three
functions to help identify specific concerns that may either result
in further testing by a Licensed Driving Instructor or removal of the
patient's license.
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OSHA
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Brain Injury Association
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