Occupational Therapy

Occupational Therapy

What we do?

Occupational therapists aid the client to improve their quality of life to live independently , so they can be independent as  how they were before their life changing experience. With personalised intervention the client with any differently abledness are trained to restore or maintain or manage their complications in doing their occupations due to their condition are worked on by occupational therapists. Therapy will be framed with need based functional tasks with advanced equipment and manual therapy techniques, which  bring about functional changes in patients abilities and overall prognosis in patients activities of daily living.

● Training activities of daily living
● Work simulation which helps return back to work
● Teaching compensatory mechanisms
● Prescribing and educating adaptive devices 
● Prescribing or fabricating custom hand splints 
● Planning and executing home modification
● Awareness and education to family members
● Hand rehabilitation
● Community integration

Who gets benefits from an occupational therapist?

Individuals who have problems in physical, sensory, mental, cognitive, emotional or social skills need occupational therapy. Occupational therapists focus on one’ occupations which are self care, productivity and leisure. All age groups get benefits from occupational therapy.

What conditions occupational therapist of Moksha functional rehabilitation center deals with

● Neurolo
Individuals with declined functional abilities such as brushing, bathing, dressing, eating or have a dependence in activities of daily living, hand deformities and upper limb neurological problems, issues with coordination and balance, cognitive impairments, behavioral issues, worried about returning back to work, taking care of family and house management will benefit from occupational therapy services. Conditions like Brain injury, spinal cord injury, neuromuscular disorders have these complications.

● Orthopedic
Activities of daily living and the work of an individual will be affected followed by fracture, dislocation of upper limb, amputation, arthritis, tendon or ligament injuries. With personalized therapy plans and customized splints, they will be trained to be independent in all aspects of life physically.

● Pediatrics conditions
Children’s main occupations are self-care , play, relationships with others, pre-school and schooling. Children who have physical/behavioral/sensory/social/mental/cognitive deficits are unable to perform those occupations , thus they need OT. Conditions like Autism, learning disability, ADHD, ID, down syndrome, developmental delay, cerebral palsy, hand deformities, balance and coordination and so on will be given tailored therapy for their betterment with adequate groups and sessions.

When to start the therapy?

As soon as possible, early intervention gives speed recovery and good progress during intervention. Once the Individuals start getting occupational therapy, then they acquire confidence to carry out their daily life independently.

Occupational therapists aid the client to improve their quality of life to live independently, so they can be independent as  how they were before their life changing experience. With personalised intervention the client with any differently ableness are trained to restore or maintain or manage their complications in doing their occupations due to their condition.

Treatments provided by occupational therapy 
● Training activities of daily living and IADL training
● Work simulation which helps return back to work
● Teaching compensatory mechanisms
● Hand rehabilitation
● Cognitive Functional rehabilitation
● Sensory reduction
● Functional mobility training
● Vocational rehabilitation
● Handwriting training
● Coma stimulation
● Sensory integration technique
● Prescribing and educating adaptive devices
● Prescribing or fabricating custom hand splints
● Planning and executing home modification
● Community integration
● Awareness and education to family members.



Therapy will be framed with need based functional tasks with advanced equipment and manual therapy techniques, which  bring about functional changes in patients abilities and overall prognosis in patients activities of daily living

Who gets benefits from an occupational therapist?

Individuals who have problems in physical, sensory, mental, cognitive, emotional or social skills need occupational therapy. Occupational therapists focus on one’ occupations which are self care, productivity and leisure. All age groups get benefits from occupational therapy.

When to start the therapy?

As soon as possible, early intervention gives speed recovery and good progress during intervention. Once the Individuals start getting occupational therapy, then they acquire confidence to carry out their daily life independently.

Occupational therapy

Conditions

● Neurological conditions
     ➔ Brain injury
         ★ Traumatic brain injury
         ★ Coma
         ★ Concussion
         ★ Hematoma
         ★ Hypoxic / Anoxa brain injury
         ★ Ischemic stroke
         ★ Hemorrhagic Stroke
         ★ Hemiplegia
         ★ Hemiparesis
         ★ Brain tumor
         ★ Head trauma
     ➔ Spinal cord injuries
         ★ Anterior cord syndrome
     ★ Central Cord Syndrome
         ★ Brown-Sequard Syndrome
         ★ Tetraplegia
         ★ Paraplegia
         ★ Triplegia
         ★ Spinal tumor
     ➔ Neurodegenerative disorder
         ★ Parkinson’s disease
         ★ Dementia / Alzheimer’s disease
     ➔ Neuromuscular disorder
         ★ Muscular dystrophy
         ★ Duchenne muscular dystrophy
     ★ Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
         ★ Spinal muscular atrophy
         ★ Friedreich’s ataxia
     ➔ Autoimmune disorder
         ★ Multiple sclerosis
         ★ Gullain barre syndrome
         ★ Myasthenia gravis
         ★ Rheumatoid arthritis
     ➔ Ataxia.
     ➔ Bell’s Palsy
     ➔ Myasthenia grevis
     ➔ Muscular dystrophy
     ➔ Cerebral Aneurysm.
     ➔ Epilepsy and Seizures.
     ➔ Multiple sclerosis
     ➔ Guillian barre syndrome
     ➔ Miller fisher syndrome
     ➔ Cerebellar degeneration
     ➔ Dystonia
     ➔ Apraxia
         ★ Ideomotor apraxia
         ★ Conceptual apraxia
         ★ Ideational apraxia
         ★ Constructional apraxia
         ★ Occulomotor apraxia
     ➔ Encephalitis
     ➔ Epilepsy
     ➔ Encephalomyelitis
     ➔ Transverse myelitis
     ➔ Agnosia
     ➔ Ataxia
         ★ Ideopathic ataxia
         ★ Ataxia-telangiectasia
         ★ Friedreich’s ataxia
         ★ Spinocerebellar ataxia
     ➔ Tourette syndrome
     ➔ Dysautonomia

● Orthopedic conditions
     ➔ Amputation
     ➔ Fracture
     ➔ Arthritis
     ➔ Wounds and scars
     ➔ Congenital anomalies
     ➔ Crush injuries
     ➔ Tendon injuries
     ➔ Dislocation and subluxation
     ➔ Ligament injury and instability
     ➔ Nerve injuries and condition ( neuropatheis, palsies, nerve repair)

● Hand rehabilitation
     ➔ Cumulative trauma disorders
             ★ Carpel tunnel syndrome
             ★ Cubital tunnel syndrome
             ★ DeQuervain’s tenosynovities
             ★ Tennis elbow (Lateral epicondylitis)
             ★ Golfer’s elbow (Tennis elbow)
             ★ Nerve entrapment disorders
             ★ Tendonitis
             ★ Tenosynovities
             ★ Trigger finger
             ★ Trigger thumb
     ➔ Traumatic conditions
             ★ Amputations
             ★ Burns
             ★ Crush injuries
             ★ Dislocations
             ★ Fracture
             ★ Frostbite
             ★ Mallet finger
             ★ Nerve laceration
             ★ Sprains and strains
             ★ Tenton laceration and ruptures
             ★ Wounds
     ➔ Other upper extremity condition
             ★ Complex regional pain syndrome
             ★ Elbow conditions
             ★ Finger deformities
                     ➢ Swan neck deformities
                     ➢ Boutonniere deformities
             ★ Neurological conditions
             ★ Osteoarthritis
             ★ Rheumatoid arthritis
             ★ Thumb arthritis
             ★ Work related hand injuries
             ★ Wrist instabilities
             ★ Pediatric hand and arm injuries



● Pediatric conditions
     ➔ Autism spectrum disorder
         ★ Autism
         ★ Asperger syndrome
         ★ Rett syndrome
     ➔ Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
     ➔ Sensory processing disorder
     ➔ Sensory based feeding problems
     ➔ Behavioural issues
     ➔ Cognitive disorders
     ➔ Brachial plexus injury
     ➔ Congenital myasthenia
     ➔ Erbs palsy
     ➔ Congenital myopathy
     ➔ Cerebral palsy
     ➔ Developmental delay
     ➔ Dandy walker syndrome
     ➔ Spina bifida
     ➔ Down syndrome
     ➔ Hydrocephalus
     ➔ Microcephalus
     ➔ Hypertonia
     ➔ Hypotonia
     ➔ Infantile hemiplegia
     ➔ Learning disabilities
         ★ Dyslexia
         ★ Dysgraphia
         ★ Dyscalculia
         ★ Auditory processing disorder
         ★ Language processing disorder
         ★ Nonverbal learning disabilities
         ★ Visual perceptual/visual motor deficit
     ➔ Intellectual disability

● Other conditions
     ➔ Burns
        ★ Skin injury
        ★ Joint protection
        ★ Scars
        ★ Contracture
        ★ Edema
     ➔ Geriatric
        ★ Falls
        ★ Low vision
        ★ Memory issues
        ★ Cognitive impairment
        ★ Unorganised routine
     ➔ Vestibular
         ★ Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo
     ➔ Mental illness related to neurological conditions
         ★ Hallucination
         ★ Delusion

Services / Treatments of occupational therapy

● Adult services
     ➔ Bed mobility
     ➔ Functional independency
     ➔ Functional mobility
     ➔ AdL training
     ➔ IADL training
     ➔ Cognitive rehabilitation
     ➔ Hand rehabilitation
     ➔ Visual rehabilitation
     ➔ Vocational rehabilitation
     ➔ Behaviour and emotional stabilization
     ➔ Social skill training
     ➔ Sensory reeducation
     ➔ Balance and coordination training
     ➔ Productive leisure training
     ➔ Sleep and rest
     ➔ Community integration
     ➔ Returning back to work
     ➔ Home modification
     ➔ Adaptive device
     ➔ Hand splints
     ➔ Adaptations and compensatories
     ➔ Education about conditions
     ➔ Caregiver training and their mental wellbeing training

 

● Peadiatric services
     ➔ Play therapy
     ➔ ADL traning (age appropriate selfcare)
     ➔ Age appropriate milestone training
     ➔ Group therapy
     ➔ Sensory integration training
     ➔ Social skill training
     ➔ School readiness training
     ➔ Handwriting
     ➔ Fine motor skills
     ➔ Gross motor skills
➔ Executive skills
➔ Emotional regulation
➔ Behaviour stability
➔ Parent education
➔ Return to school (educate teachers) (help parents to find appropriate schools)

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