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!

USC Chan Division of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy

1540 Alcazar Street, CHP 133, Los Angeles, CA 90089-9003

ACOTE accreditation | NBCOT certification

The USC entry-level master’s degree program (cost of attendance) is fully accredited by the Accreditation Council for Occupational Therapy Education® (ACOTE®) of the American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA). The USC entry-level doctorate in occupational therapy (OTD) degree program (cost of attendance) has applied for accreditation and has been granted Preaccreditation Status by ACOTE®. View our program’s ACOTE® standards public data. ACOTE® c/o the American Occupational Therapy Association, Inc.®, 7501 Wisconsin Avenue, Suite 510E, Bethesda, MD 20814, (301) 652-AOTA, www.acoteonline.org. The program must complete an on-site evaluation and be granted Accreditation Status before its graduates will be eligible to sit for the national certification examination for the occupational therapist administered by the National Board for Certification in Occupational Therapy, Inc.® (NBCOT®).

Professional program graduates are eligible to apply for certification by National Board for Certification in Occupational Therapy, Inc.® (NBCOT®), nbcot.org. Program results from the NBCOT can be found online at www.nbcot.org/Educators-Folder/SchoolPerformance.