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Occupational Therapy
Occupational Therapy is a rehabilitation profession directed at restoring and enhancing an individual's participation in life's daily activities. This is accomplished through the use of functional and purposeful tasks that are familiar and part of the person's day-to-day life. An Occupational Therapists education enables them to work with individuals who are experiencing physical, cognitive and/or social impairments.
Occupational Therapy programs include:
- Stroke Recovery-Neuro Dynamic Therapy focus
- Brain Injury recovery
- Spinal Cord Injury recovery
- Community Re-entry
- Driving Rehabilitation- in conjunction with skilled OT service*
- Visual-Perceptual Training
- Activities of Daily Living
- Adaptive Equipment Training
- Interactive Metronome *
- Energy Conservation/ Work Simplification Training
- Joint Protection Techniques
- Upper extremity orthopedic rehabilitation
- Shoulder, elbow, wrist injuries
- Repetitive stress disorders
- Splinting*
Rehabilitation is all about helping you help yourself to make profound changes, to explore new avenues of thinking, behaving, and doing things to achieve the independence that is within your reach. Rather than a cure, it is a processed designed to restore your life. A good rehabilitation facility will help you or your loved one achieve the highest level of independence possible.
How do I get started?
Anyone interested in participating in Occupational Therapy must have a prescription from a physician.
For more information call one of the numbers listed below:
HealthSouth
171 Pine Street
Holyoke, MA 01040
(413) 536-7824
HealthSouth
14 Chestnut Place
Ludlow, MA 01056
(413) 547-2616
At HealthSouth, we look to provide our patients with the finest clinicians, technology, facilities and programs available. We do this in a safe environment, always working to achieve superior outcomes for each patient in a professional, caring and cooperative manner.
At HealthSouth, we're dedicated to providing expert, cost-effective care, producing excellent outcomes and getting people back - to work - to play - to living.
*Offered in Ludlow facility only
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