Introduction
The Rehabilitation Centre was set up in 1985. Over the years, it has developed into a centre providing integrated rehabilitation services. The Centre conducts individual and group therapy sessions. It adopts a cross functional and inter-disciplinary approach to patient care. The services provided are not just for a particular condition but for the total well-being of the individual. Continual assessments are carried out on patients to ensure a smooth recovery.
Occupational Therapy
Restoring Ability for Independent Living
Our occupational therapists look into patients' roles and daily activities such as self-care, work, play and leisure. They help patients restore and enhance their abilities to handle these activities through practicing purposeful and enabling activities, environmental modification, task adaptation and the use of assistive devices and splints.
Specific occupational therapy programs include:
Re-training in handling activities of daily living (ADL)
Standardized and non-standardized assessments
Home visits and assessments
Worksite visits and assessments
Work conditioning
Ergonomic consultations and workshops
Stress management
Motor and Sensory re-training to improve
Upper limb and hand functions
Re-training in cognitive perceptual functions (e.g. concentration/attention, problem-solving and conceptualization)
Improving social and leisure skills
Splinting for various hand injuries
Myofascial pain conditions and soft tissue injuries including RSIs.
Adaptive devices and equipment prescription
Patient and family/ caregiver training
Wound and scar management
Congenital hand conditions
Examples of Hand conditions treated by our hand occupational therapist include traumatic injuries, arthritis, trigger finger, deQuervain’s syndrome , complex regional pain syndrome, tennis elbow, carpal tunnel syndrome etc.
Apart from the above-mentioned clinical services, hand occupational therapists are also involved in clinical research and outcome studies as well as professional education for occupational therapy students
Patients undergoing therapy (L-R) individualized therapy, wrist strengthening, fluidotherapy, whirlpool therapy
(L-R) splints being made and array of thermoplastic splints available
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