Hospital-Based Occupational Therapy Programs
Bariatric Center of Excellence
- Incorporate lifestyle and habit changes into daily living prior to surgery
- Improve safety and performance of personal care activities
- Prepare for return to work, school, social and other activities
- Overcome barriers to following dietary guidelines
Cardiothoracic Surgery
- Incorporate post-operative precautions
- Improve functional strength and activity endurance
- Safely perform basic personal care activities and daily routines
- Develop a home transition plan including caregivers
- Provide recommendations for appropriate referral to continued outpatient rehabilitation
Low Vision
- Provide low vision rehabilitation services
- Teach visual perception and ocular motor retraining
- Enhance independence and safety in everyday activities at home, work and in the community
- Recommend assistive devices and technology as needed
Lymphedema and Edema Management
- Improve range of motion
- Increase independent performance of self-care
- Minimize possibility of bacterial infection
- Reduce swelling through manual therapy and compression bandaging
- Provide personal plan for lymphedema management in the context of everyday activities
Neurology/ Neurosurgery
- Introduce neuromuscular re-education
- Perform neurorehabilitation of hand functioning
- Employ splinting and physical modalities
- Lifestyle Redesign® for Multiple Sclerosis and Parkinson’s Disease, Pain Management, and Headaches
Oncology
- Recover functional activity performance
- Reprioritize personal goals during progressive debilitation or during remission
- Intervene to minimize nerve injury and sensory loss, and improve range of motion and strength
- Decrease contractures, edema or lymphedema, and manage debilitating pain and fatigue
- Lifestyle Redesign® Cancer Survivors
Orthopedics
- Ensure compliance with movement restrictions or other precautions
- Early out-of-bed ambulation during practice of automated routines
- Educate and train use of adaptive equipment to increase independence
- Prevent falls by planning for the challenges, routines and environments of everyday life
- Provide customized plans for daily activities that optimize likelihood of better surgical outcomes
Psychiatry/ Mental Health
- Improve capacity for functional activity
- Reinforce healthy routines and daily habits
- Enhance role performance to successfully meet the demands of everyday life in the community
Transplantation
- Improve physical and psychosocial health to promote transplantation candidacy
- Maintain quality of life through successful activity performance and routines
- Restore independence in daily living activities and meaningful occupations
Hand Therapy
- Assess and treat limitations in strength, coordination, sensation and motor control
- Customized splinting and positioning
- Teach therapeutic exercise
- Retrain neuromuscular system
- Desensitize
- Customize plan for maximizing function and avoiding injury in the context of everyday activities
To make an appointment or for more information, speak with your physician for a referral or call us at (323) 442-8850 today!
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