Overview of Occupational Therapy
Occupational therapy at Baylor Scott & White Health assists you or your loved one in managing the challenges of everyday life. Our licensed occupational therapists use occupation-based, patient-centered treatments to develop, recover or maintain your activities of daily living and work-related skills.
Occupational therapy services are designed to help you:
- Participate more fully in work, family and social settings
- Recover from injury or disability
- Develop or regain skills
Conditions Treated
Our therapists work with patients across a wide range of ages and physical, neurological or developmental conditions.
Some of the diagnoses we work with:
- ALS
- Brachial plexus injuries
- Cerebral palsy
- Complex shoulder injuries
- CRPS
- Crush injuries
- CVA
- Essential tremors
- Generalized UE weakness
- Guillain-Barré
- MS
- Orthopedic injuries
- Pain management
- Parkinson's disease
- Peripheral nerve injuries
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Spinal cord injuries
- Sports injuries
- Stroke
- TBI
Occupational Therapy Services and Programs
To assist you in regaining skills and abilities for work and everyday living, some of the therapies we offer include:
- Neuromuscular retraining and re-education, including range of motion exercises, strengthening, balance, stretching, sensory re-education
- Assessment of need for adaptive equipment
- Assessment of need for equipment for home safety
- Cognitive assessment and retraining
- Training for self-care activities
- Wheelchair assessment and fitting
- Orthotic fitting
- Training in post-op weight bearing and other precautions
- Developing post-op home programs for patients, family members and caregivers
- Hand therapy
- Driving safety and assessment
- Handwriting