Occupational Therapy
Occupational therapy helps people to do the things they want and need to do through the therapeutic use of daily activities (occupations). Occupational therapy practitioners at Lutheran Kosciusko Hospital enable individuals to live life to its fullest by helping them promote health, and prevent - or live better with - injury, illness or a disability.
What does occupational therapy provide?
- Treatment of hand, elbow, forearm and wrist dysfunction
- Improved participation in self-care, leisure, school, work activities and tasks
- Adaptive equipment assessment, education and training
- Customized splinting
- Neurological diagnoses
- Care for age-related developmental delays (18 years and older)
- Upper extremity repetitive motion disorders care
- Ergonomics and work site assessment
- Inpatient diagnoses
Common diagnoses:
- Post-surgical (planned/unplanned)
- Fractures/sprains
- Stroke/T.I.A.
- Complex regional pain syndrome
- Spinal cord injuries
- Traumatic brain injuries
- Falls/accidents
- Burns
- Amputations
- Post heart attacks
- Loss of endurance/strength or decline in functional capabilities
- Osteoarthritis/rheumatoid arthritis
- Medial/lateral epicondylitis
- Carpal tunnel
- Tendon injury or repair
Treatment options:
- Splinting
- Static and dynamic bracing
- Ultrasound/phonophoresis
- Iontophoresis
- Electrical stimulation/TENS
- Fluidotherapy
- Graded motor imagery
- Whirlpool/debridement
- Scar management
- Ice massage
- Therapeutic exercise
- Manual massage/ASTM
- Pain management
- Activities of daily living
- Neuromuscular re-education
- Desensitization and sensory re-training
- Energy conservation
- Safety training
For more information, please contact: (574) 372-7671