Occupational Therapy

 

Occupational therapy has become a benchmark for the therapeutic treatment of some physical and intellectual disabilities and a tool with significant potential to help these people master basic activities of daily life such as eating, dressing and using the bathroom alone. This is why the figure of the occupational therapist is increasingly present in hospitals, schools or occupational centers.

Located in Bridgeview, Illinois, Bridgeview Health Care Center is a skilled nursing and rehabilitation center which offers an array of specialized health and rehabilitative services, including occupational therapy.

What is Occupational Therapy?

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), occupational therapy is a “set of techniques, methods and actions that through activities applied for therapeutic purposes, prevents and maintains health, favors the restoration of function, supplies the disabling deficits, and values ​​the behavioral assumptions and their profound significance, to achieve the greatest possible independence and reintegration of the individual in all its aspects: work, mental, physical and social ”. The somewhat more concise definition of the World Federation of Occupational Therapists (WFOT) refers to occupational therapy as “a profession that deals with the promotion of health and well-being through occupation”.

Offering physical, occupational and speech therapy with experience in treating a variety of neurological, orthopedic, and medical conditions, the rehabilitation program at Bridgeview assisted care community is designed to address the specific needs of the individual in order to allow them to return to their maximum independence. Family involvement in the rehabilitation process will be encouraged because we believe that family support and education are vital aspects in providing excellence in care.

Bridgeview Health Care Center occupational therapy program focuses on improving the patients/residents’ skills in the Activities of Daily Living (ADLs). Therapists work with patients/residents to maximize their potential for re-learning basic living skills such as eating, dressing, bathing, toileting, and cooking. Bridgeview’s therapists help patients/residents learn to cope with losses in ADL and physical functioning, through the use of therapeutic exercise and activity.

Services include:

§  Activity of Daily Living (ADL) Retraining

§  Wheelchair seating and positioning to maximum functioning and mobility

§  Functional cognitive and perceptual retraining

§  Contracture management and splint

§  Incontinence program and home safety assessment

§  Safety training

§  Use of adaptive equipment