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Occupational Therapy
The goal of occupational therapy is to successfully return patients to an active, independent lifestyle. By helping patients overcome issues like weakness, tremors, and impaired thinking and visual skills, occupational therapists work to restore the patient's ability to carry out activities of daily living like eating, bathing, dressing, and returning to work, as well as independent living skills, such as homemaking and money management. 

Who Can Benefit From Occupational Therapy?
Among others, occupational therapy can help people who have the following problems: 

  • Stroke
  • Hand Injuries 
  • Carpal Tunnel
  • Traumatic hand/arm injury care
  • Wrist fracture rehab
  • Splinting
  • Tendon/nerve trauma management
  • Muscular Dystrophy
  • Arthritis
  • Hip Fracture
  • Head Injury    
  •  Parkinson's Disease   
  • Multiple Sclerosis
  • Amputations Spinal Cord Injury