Occupational therapy
Occupational therapy helps individuals develop the abilities for everyday life — with "occupation" referring to the wide range of activities you do during the course of a normal day.
Via Christi occupational therapists work to help patients be as independent as possible with daily living skills. The areas of difficulty we address include:
- Vision
- Cognition
- Dressing
- Bathing
- Toileting
- Return to work
- Homemaking
- Arm and hand weakness
- Incoordination
Who can benefit from occupational therapy?
We help people who are dealing with limitations related to:
- Arm injuries/trauma
- Stroke
- Spinal cord injuries
- Multiple sclerosis
- Parkinson's disease
- Burns
- Visual and cognitive impairments
- Traumatic brain injuries
- Osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis
- Degenerative chronic conditions
- Sensory integration or autism