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 direct special activities to help people of all ages maximize their ability to lead independent, productive and satisfying lives.

Specialized occupational therapy services include:

• Hand Rehabilitiation
• Pediatric Occupational Therapy
• Arthritis
• Lymphedema
• Ergonomics
• Skilled Nursing Facility
• Spasticity Clinic
• Cerebral Palsy Clinic

Occupational therapy uses purposeful activity to evaluate and train individuals suffering from physical, sensory, visual-perceptual and cognitive deficits in order to return the individual to a functional lifestyle. Family members are encouraged to take active roles in the rehabilitation process. Home visits and/or home evaluations determine what modification or adaptations are necessary to ensure independence and safety once the individual returns home from the hospital.

Occupational therapists maximize independence of people with disabilities or illness by:

• Assessing and training in daily life tasks such as dressing, bathing, grooming, eating, etc.
• Evaluating needs and training the patient to use self-help devices to enhance independence.
• Increasing mobility by prescribing needed wheelchairs and training in transfers.
• Evaluating an individual's ability to perform homemaking and work activities.
• Guiding people in activities to increase function, strength, joint motion, coordination and endurance.
• Fabricating appropriate slings and splints for proper positioning, joint support and correction of contractures which may also prevent deformity.
• Visiting home, work, or school to evaluate the environmental layout and making recommendations for modifications to enhance safety, function and independence.

Specialized Services

Hand Rehabilitation

Occupational Therapists work to restore function in people suffering traumatic hand injuries, carpal tunnel syndrome and burns by:

• Assessing and treating conditions resulting from fractures, nerve injuries, tendon injuries, edema, scarring, joint stiffness, inflammation and cumulative trauma.
• Evaluating physical limitations, grip, pinch strength, sensation and functional hand capacity.
• Guiding individuals through activities that increase strength, mobility, coordination and function.
• Fabricating appropriate splints for proper positioning, joint support, correction of contractures and preventing deformity.

Specialty certification: a Certified Hand Therapist (CHT) is on staff to assist patients.

Pediatric Occupational Therapy

Pediatric occupational therapists work in a variety of settings, including in-patient (Pediatric Wards, Pediatric ICU, Neonatal ICU and Inpatient Rehabilitation) and outpatient services, to enhance the development of children of all ages by:

• Evaluating and treating children with neurological impairments, developmental delays, autism, feeding problems, school/learning problems, sensory integration deficits, visual-perceptual deficits and visual motor integration problems.
• Providing and training parents in infant stimulation.
• Fabricating or helping obtain proper positioning equipments such as wheelchairs, prone standers and splints.
• Training children to use adaptive devices to promote independence.
• Develop home and school programs to involve parents and teachers in treatment carry-over on a daily basis.
• Offering consultation to local schools and rehabilitation centers.

Specialty certification: a Pediatric Occupational Therapy specialist is on staff.

Arthritis

Teaching people joint protection and proper body mechanics to prevent deformities and simplify activities. Making splints to support and stabilize arthritic joints

Lymphedema

Fitting appropriate elastic garments for individuals with burns, lymphedema, edema, and vascular defects.

Ergonomics

Evaluating workers at the work station for proper fit and comfort.

Skilled Nursing Facility

Providing a variety of rehabilitation service to enhance patients function in daily activities.

Spasticity Clinic

Evaluating the needs and follow up on children and adults with spasticity.

Cerebral Palsy Clinic

Evaluating children with cerebral palsy in an interdisciplinary setting to provide this unique group of patients with appropriate treatment and splinting,

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