Occupational Therapy
Scott & White's licensed and registered occupational therapists have specific skills to teach patients how to cope with the challenges of everyday life. Occupational therapists use "occupation-based" treatments to develop, recover or maintain the daily living and work skills of their patients with a physical, mental or developmental condition.
Some of the diagnoses we treat:
- CVA
- Parkinson's disease
- Sports injuries
- Crush injuiries
- Complex shoulder injuries
- Dysgraphia
- MS
- Stroke
- Guillain-Barre
- CRPS
- Brachioplexus injuries
- Spinal cord injury
- ALS
- Essential tremors
- Pain management
- TBI
- Rheumatoid Arthritis
- Orthopedic injuries
- Cerebral Palsy
- Peripheral nerve injuries
- Generalized UE weakness
Treatment techniques
- Handwriting/Dysgraphia – Handwriting without tears program
- LSVT Big Therapy for Parkinson’s disease
- Work hardening/re-entry
- UE/trunk strengthening/ROM
- Manual therapy
- Biofeedback
- Edema management/scar mobilizations
- Ergonomic/activity modifications
- NMES/IFC/ultrasound/iontophoresis
- Balance re-training
- Splinting to reduce/manage spasticity
- Kinesio-taping
- Mirror therapy
- Modififed Constraint-Induced Movement Therapy (CMT)
- Wound care
- Power wheelchair evaluations and training
- Saebo Flex, Saebo Mass, Saebo Stretch
- Activities of Daily Living (ADLs): dressing, grooming, bathing, feeding, toileting
- Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (IADLs): medication management, shopping
