How can an Occupational Therapist help?

If you answer YES to any of the following questions, then we can help!

1. Do you have difficulty with buttons?
2. Do you have pain or stiffness in your fingers, wrists or elbows?
3. Are you unable to perform any activities that you enjoy because your hands won't let you?

Our Occupational Therapy Departments have helped many people decrease their pain and improve their Quality of Life.

What is Occupational Therapy?

Occupational therapy is skilled treatment that helps individuals achieve independence in all facets of their lives. It gives people the "skills for the job of living" necessary for independent and satisfying lives. Services typically include:

• Treatment of the hand, wrist and elbow
  
• Customized treatment programs to improve one's ability to perform daily activities
  
• Comprehensive home and job site evaluations with adaptation recommendations
  
• Performance skills assessments and treatment
  
• Adaptive equipment recommendations and usage training
  
• Guidance to family members and caregivers

Occupational therapy practitioners are skilled professionals whose education includes the study of human growth and development with specific emphasis on the social, emotional, and physiological effects of illness and injury.

Our Occupational Therapists have extensive knowledge and experience in the treatment of the hand, wrist and elbow. They have worked closely with many of the areas top hand surgeons and orthopedists in helping their patients achieve the best possible outcomes.

Please call today to see how we can help decrease your pain and improve your quality of life.