Occupational Therapy

Occupational therapists at Polinsky Medical Rehabilitation Center improve patients’ abilities to perform everyday tasks, such as bathing, cooking, dressing, checkbook management and home safety.

Our highly trained occupational therapists’ services include:

• Activities of daily living and recommendations on adaptive equipment
• Neuromuscular evaluation for strengthening as well as for splinting affected areas and for lymphedema (swelling) management
• Home assessments to evaluate safety and provide recommendations for kitchen, bathrooms and other rooms
• Working with patients with Multiple Sclerosis or Parkinson’s Disease
• Driver’s potential assessments
• Vision therapy, including help with low vision or compensatory strategies for limited fields of vision
• Hand, arm and shoulder rehabilitation including use of Saeboflex, Hand Mentor and Bioness
• Dementia evaluations and caregiver education
• Evaluations for wheelchairs, seating and other adaptive equipment

Meet our occupational therapists.