| Occupational
Therapy Services
Occupational
therapists provide evaluation and therapy services
focused on the tasks and movements associated
with daily living for newborns through the elderly.
Diagnoses include illness, disease processes,
congenital anomalies, developmental delays and
traumatic injuries. Our multidisciplinary
staff is committed to improve the quality of your
life and to make everyday activities easier for
you.
A
physician's referral is required to begin therapy
services.
Specialty Programs
Patients with a variety of diagnoses
can benefit from our comprehensive occupational
therapy treatments:
- Burns
- Fecal incontinence
- Hand injuries or anomalies
- Lymphedema
- Neurological disorders
- Sensory integration issues
Additionally,
Loyola's occupational therapists provide services for
adults trying to return to their workplace following
an accident, injury or medical condition:
- Functional
capacity evaluations
- Jobsite
visits
Treatment
Techniques
Our
programs emphasize an individualized approach with tailored
treatments. Your treatment may include:
- Activities
of daily living retraining
- Cognitive
retraining
- Coordination
training
- Energy
conservation
- Equipment
adaptation and training
- Hand
rehabilitation
- Neuromuscular
re-education
- Patient
and family education
- Perceptual
impairment retraining
- Positioning
- Psychosocial
support
- Safety
training
- Scar
management
- Sensory-motor
retraining
- Sensory
stimulation
- Specialized
upper and lower extremity splint fabrication
- Strengthening
- Stress
management
- Training
in functional body mechanics
Pediatric
Treatment Techniques
Both
inpatient and outpatient occupational therapy
services for children are provided through the
Ronald McDonald® Children's Hospital of Loyola
University Medical Center. Caring for children
offers unique challenges. Treatments may include:
- Equipment
adaptions
- Fabrication
of static and dynamic orthoses (splints)
- Facilitation
of normal adaptive/cognitive, fine motor, personal,
social and self-help skills
- Improving
emotional maturation, attention skills and self concept
- Measuring
and fitting of upper body compression garments
- Scar
management
- Sensory
processing evaluation and treatment
Locations
and Contacts
Occupational therapy services
are available in Maywood at:
Loyola
University Hospital
Loyola
Center for Health - Rehabilitation Services
Services also are available at the following
locations:
Center
for Health at Hickory Hills
Center
for Health at Homer Glen
Oakbrook
Terrace Medical Center
If
you would like to make an appointment or need
assistance to find an appropriate therapist, please
call us at (888) LUHS-888.
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