Nicolette Ganas Occupational Therapy

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What Should I Expect When First Meeting My Occupational Therapist

An initial evaluation to best assess what may be beneficial to your stroke recovery.

Adapt activities to make the activity achievable. This may be things such as placing a raised toilet seat or bedside commode over your toilet to make it easier to use or providing elastic shoelaces if your hand function has impacted your ability to dress.

Teach you strategies in achieve tasks such as one-handed dressing techniques or using an electric toothbrush to help meet your hygiene need

Help provide guidance or assistance in obtaining equipment such as a walker, wheelchair, orthotics, or new technologies to assist in recovery

Address arm use through a variety of activities which may include the use of the following but are not limited to: movement exercises such as passive range of motion (PROM), active range of motion (AROM), active-assisted range of motion (AAROM), stretching, use of motor imagery, neuro-rehabilitation techniques (constraint-induced movement therapy, mirror therapyand splinting

Address functional mobility and home modifications

Instruct strategies to help with movement and recovery

Advise on the ways to return to work, the community, or driving

Assist management of long term needs and modifications

If you have experienced a stroke, you should be assessed by an occupational therapist.

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