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MCH Rehab Center
Occupational Therapy

What is Occupational Therapy?

“In its simplest terms, occupational therapists and occupational therapy assistants help people across the lifespan participate in the things they want and need to do through the therapeutic use of everyday activities (occupations).” www.aota.org

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Occupational therapy provides a customized plan of care to restore life skills for all age groups with a focus on activities that are meaningful to the patient. Occupations look different for everyone but are essential to a good quality of life. Occupational therapy treatment addresses pain, injury, illness, limitation, or disability that makes it difficult to do a job or school work, care for yourself, complete household chores, move around, or participate in activities. Occupational therapy will also teach patients how to adapt to the environment and/or adapt the task to fit each patient’s needs.

Common Diagnoses

OTs serve patients with a variety of diagnoses including, but not limited to:

  • Physical and developmental deficits

  • Stroke

  • Fractures

  • Joint replacements

  • Arthritis

  • Chronic pain

  • Lymphedema (post-mastectomy care, lymph node removal, post-surgical lymphedema)

  • Repetitive work injuries (carpal tunnel syndrome, cubital tunnel syndrome, De Quervain’s)

  • Spinal cord injuries

  • TBI

  • Tendinitis/Tendinosis (medial/lateral epicondylitis, De Quervain’s, etc.)

  • Neurological disorders

  • Cerebral Palsy

  • Autism

Are you having trouble doing what is important to you? Have you had trouble getting through the day due to injury or disability? Ask your doctor today if occupational therapy is the choice for you!
Occupational therapists help people of all ages increase their independence with daily life and work tasks including, but not limited to:

  • Self-feeding

  • Dressing

  • Hygiene/toileting

  • Adaptive equipment training (eating, dressing, toileting, grooming, writing, etc.)

  • Wheel chair positioning

  • Wheelchair Driving and Mobility evaluations

  • Qualifying patients for wheelchairs working alongside doctor and vendor

  • Handwriting

  • Using tools

  • Playing

  • Upper Extremity functional tasks (fine motor, gross motor, sensory, pain)

  • Splinting: carpal tunnel, trigger finger, fractures, De Quervain's, etc.

  • Return to work tasks (for upper extremity)

  • ASTYM treatment

  • Lymphedema management

MCH OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY

MCH Occupational Therapy includes inpatient, swing bed, and outpatient rehab services. We offer specialized services in lymphedema management, custom hand and elbow splinting, and ASTYM treatment.

The goal of the Morris County Hospital Rehab Center is to provide quality care with an emphasis on individual, personalized service. Rest assured, our highly trained staff is constantly learning, applying, and practicing the most modern and successful methods in the physical, occupational, and speech therapy fields.
 

Your return to good health is our common goal.

MCH Rehab Center

Phone: 620.767.6811

Address: 600 North Washington Street, Council Grove, KS 66846

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