OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY

ADULT 

Amputation's

Amputations can be challenging to manage, especially if patients begin to experience ghost limbs. The patient's mental health may suffer as a result of finding it difficult to carry out everyday chores.

Occupational therapists provide patients vital treatments by identifying their objectives, analyzing their duties, and suggesting useful alterations to achieve those goals. For the benefit of the patient, specialists also provide prosthetic training.

SADNESS & ANXIETY

By offering self-awareness techniques, pace tactics, graded tasks, and focused exercises, occupational therapists want to aid clients who are experiencing depression and anxiety.

ARTHRITIS

When joints are stiff from lack of mobility, it causes pain and suffering in those who have arthritis. Occupational therapists provide ways to persons who are affected so they may go about their everyday lives without putting excessive strain on their joints.

DEMENTIA, BRAIN DAMAGE, & ALZHEIMER'S

From a few months to years, it may take some time to fully recover from a brain damage. Through exercises that create neural connections between the limbs and the brain, OT can assist patients in regaining control over their everyday activities. By creating brain links, these strategies are also proven to aid with memory retention in Alzheimer's and dementia patients.

BURNS

When combined with physical treatment, occupational therapy can help burn sufferers move more comfortably and relearn physical skills that their brains may have forgotten through lack of usage. For such patients, a secure and closely supervised setting is offered to ensure that they don't damage themselves during the sessions.

CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME

Although commonly sought after a carpal tunnel surgery, OT is also used to attempt to avoid the surgery altogether. Carpal tunnel syndrome is usually caused by the overuse of fingers, wrists, hands, and the forearms.

OT treatments for carpal tunnel include splinting of the affected area, exercises, and massages to alleviate pain and swelling. However, post-surgery treatments differ, as they include mild exercises, flexing and stretching, strength training, and joint stabilization.

DUPUYTREN’S CONTRACTURE

Dupuytren’s Disease is a progressive fibro-proliferative disorder that affects the hands and causes permanent flexion and contracture of the fingers. Occupational therapists usually recommend exercises that help increase the range of movements in the fingers and hands.

Other conditions that can be treated with the help of OT are:

• Tendinitis

• Hip or Knee Replacements

• Huntington’s Disease

• Motor Neuron Disease

• Multiple Sclerosis

• Orthopedics

• Parkinson’s Disease

• Scar Management

• Spinal Injury

• Stroke

CHILDREN

Occupational therapy is also quite useful to improve the quality of life and well-being of children suffering from various disorders, like the following listed.

ASPERGER’S SYNDROME

Asperger’s Syndrome is usually detected in children by the age of 3, while in some cases, it can be diagnosed as early as infancy. Occupational therapy helps children by reinforcing their motor skills and also with sensory integration problems.

ADHD

Children with ADHD usually have difficulty regulating, prioritizing, or switching attention, and easily get distracted. Using sensory integration therapy, occupational therapists aim to develop the child’s sensory processing capabilities and reorganize their sensory system as a whole. Other techniques are also used to strengthen their senses.

AUTISM

Since children with Autism have trouble communicating and interacting with others, occupational therapists study their environment and work with teachers and parents to develop specialized exercises that specifically cater to the child’s needs. These exercises aim to increase the child’s attention span, play skills, attentive transition, response to stimuli, and improve the interaction between them and others.

CEREBRAL PALSY

Children with cerebral palsy can greatly benefit from therapy techniques aimed to increase motor function and lessen limitations. OT can help them create pathways to performing daily tasks, and process and interpret sensory input.

DOWN’S SYNDROME

Occupational therapists are quite adept at creating treatment programs for children with Down’s Syndrome, which can help them learn handwriting, keyboarding, drawing, etc. These activities are extremely beneficial for children who desire to be independent.

Other conditions OT can help with include:

• Duchene Muscular Dystrophy

• Developmental delay

• Dyspraxia

• Learning Difficulties

• Sensory Processing Disorder

• Spina Bifida

OEDEMA

The Use of Occupational Therapy for Lymphedema

For individuals with lymphedema, we offer thorough and kind rehabilitation therapies, such as:

Home programming

Educating patients and families

Lymphedema symptoms might include:

Swelling

Body parts feel full or weighty.

Despite not having gained any weight, clothing feels snug.

Skin changes (stiffness, redness)

Aching or tingling

decline in flexibility

Usually, lymphedema only affects the area where surgery was performed. For instance, lymphedema brought on by breast cancer typically affects the arm, hand, and trunk.

Uncertain whether you have lymphedema? You could be a candidate for therapy if you select "yes" in response to any of the following questions:

Have you undergone surgery for skin, head and neck, cervix, uterine, or breast cancer?

Have you had radiation or chemotherapy?

Does your face, arm, leg, or trunk become tired easily, especially while you're exercising?

Do your arm or leg appear to be bigger than the other limb?

Have your face, neck, shoulders, elbows, knees, ankles, or trunk become sore?

Do you think your skin is too tight?

Are your hand, knee, or ankle joints less flexible?

Have you recently got an infection?

Did your arm or leg swell up or get tight after a recent flight?