The Occupational Therapy Department serves impatient, swing bed, and outpatients from
the community along with home health services to those who return home prior to achieving their
maximum potential. Occupational therapy serves those patients whose activities of daily living
have been interrupted due to disease or disability. Special expertise for the Occupational Therapy
Department include an outstanding hand therapy program and splinting.
Evaluation
- Hand function - coordination, range, and strength
- Perceptual motor skills - position in space, ataxia, apraxia
- Activities Daily Living
- Dressing and transfers
- Bathing and grooming
- Energy Conservation
- Joint protection
- Functional Capacity Evaluation for return to work status
Splinting
- Custom made static splints (Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, thumb injuries, meta carpal
fractures, ect.)
Hand Therapy
- Range of Motion
- Fine and Gross Coordination Exercises
- Edema Control Techniques
- Joint Mobilization
- Joint Protection
- Splinting
Further Treatment Includes:
- ADL Re-training
- Functional Transfers
- Energy Conservation
- Perceptual Motor Exercises
- Work Hardening
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