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Occupational Therapy
Occupational Therapy
Occupational therapists provide:
- Customized evaluation with treatment programs to improve abilities to carry out activities of daily living
- Comprehensive evaluation of home and work environments and recommendations on necessary adaptation
- Assessments and treatment for performance skills
- Recommendations and training in using adaptive equipment
- Guidance to family members and attendants in safe and effective methods of caring for individuals
Occupational therapy can help treat conditions affecting children, adults and the elderly, such as:
- Alzheimer's disease
- Arthritis
- Balance and falls risk
- Brain injury
- Cognitive and perceptual disease
- Fibromyalgia
- Hand injury
- Heart disease
- Hip and knee replacement
- Low vision
- Parkinson's disease
- Repetitive motion injuries
- Stroke
Parkland offers a range of occupational therapy services to improve daily function for patients with physical or functional impairments.
Inpatient Occupational Therapy Services
Inpatient occupational therapists work with patients and their families to create individualized treatment plans to restore functional independence in activities of daily living, upper extremity use (e.g., bathing and dressing) and functional mobility (e.g., carrying groceries). Occupational therapists help patients regain an independent and safe level of function before discharge from the hospital. Occupational therapists work with discharge planners to ease the transition from Parkland Medical Center to other healthcare facilities or home.
Contact
Ph: (603) 421-2250
Outpatient Occupational Therapy Services
Occupational therapists are specially trained in managing acute hand injuries, restorative and preventive care, and assessment and treatment of cumulative trauma disorders of upper extremities. In providing outpatient treatment, therapists utilize advanced soft tissue techniques, modalities, therapeutic exercise, state-of-the-art equipment and comprehensive functionally based home exercise programs.
Services provided by our occupational therapists include but are not limited to:
- Hand therapy
- Custom splint fabrication (for corrective and/or protective measures)
- Fine Motor Evaluation and re-training
- Coordination/dexterity evaluation and training
- Work-site assessments
- Functional capacity evaluations for people with upper extremity injuries
- Energy conservation/pacing
- Ergonomic assessments/recommendations
- Home safety/activities of daily living evaluation and treatment
- Cognitive/perceptual evaluation and training
- Falls risk assessment and treatment
Outpatient occupational therapy services are offered at 44 Birch Street, Suite 300 in the Nutfield Building in Derry. Call 603-421-2250.
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