Occupational Therapy
OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY
The art & science of directing man’s participation in selected tasks to restore, reinforce and enhance performance to facilitate learning of the skills & functions essential for adaptation & productivity, diminish or correct pathology & to promote & maintain health.
Therapists obtain a comprehensive history of the individual’s occupational performance related to activities of daily living skills (ADL’s), work, play/leisure and identify the individual’s behaviors, interests, abilities, needs and goals.
They assess the sensorimotor, cognitive and psycho-social skills and deficits while considering his or her future goals. They analyze resources, constraints, demands and expectations in the home, school, worksite or community environment of the individual to facilitate progress toward identified goals.
BALANCE TRAINING
Balance is needed from the right areas of the body in order for us to execute the desired task, recover and then be able to repeat the same or similar tasks without injury. With balance training, as with most training, the idea is to recreate and manipulate in a controlled environment.
Maintaining balance means having the centre of mass within your base of support, ie with your trunk aligned over your feet.
COMMUNITY WORK RE-INTEGRATION
Community work reintegration is a rehabilitative care for returning clients to previous employment after medical illness or injury. A holistic treatment plan that addresses skill performance areas affecting work readiness for clients with neurologic and orthopedic conditions and can facilitate successful work reintegration for these clients.
Clients' rehabilitative care and work re-entry after medical illness or injury and maximizes positive outcomes in reintegrating these clients to the workplace in compliance with ADA provision Title I, Employment.
DEEP PHYSICAL AGENT MODALITIES
Deep Physical Agent Modalities (i.e. ultrasound, TENS and ionotophoresis, hot/cold packs, Paraffin, etc) are used for various types of conditions such as low back pain (LBP), myofascial and arthritic pain, sympathetically mediated pain, bladder incontinence, neurogenic pain, visceral pain, and post surgical pain.
FUNCTIONAL INDEPENDENCE TRAINING
Functional Independence Training is therapeutic intervention designed around a patient’s personal life and life activities to make that patient as independent in their environment as possible. It focuses on what is important in a patient’s life well beyond the basic Activities of Daily Living needed for baseline survival. It helps a patient recognize possible hazards of their environment, how to utilize their environment for assistance, and how to function within this environment with the skills they possess. It is a means to empower the patient with knowledge that an illness, disability, or injury does not have to take away their independence.
NEURO MUSCULAR REHABILITATION
Neuromuscular reeducation is the use of stretching, strengthening, and specialized biomechanical exercises to relieve chronic pain by creating new ways of resting, holding and moving the human body. Neuromuscular reeducation creates new pathways for the muscles and joints thereby increasing mobility and promoting pain free, healthy tissues. It is used as an adjunct to acupuncture and herbal therapies for acute and chronic pain conditions. It is used, at times, to correct the cause of a painful condition caused by clear biomechanical and postural factor
ORTHOTICS, SPLINTING AND BRACING
Orthotics, splinting and braces are designed to provide external control, correction, and support muscles and/or joints. They help in the prevention and correction of deformities that may hinder a person’s ease of movement. These also aid in support and alignment helping to improve function of the movable part of the body
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