
It’s National Occupational Therapy Month!
Medical Home Care Professionals truly appreciates our three Occupational Therapy professionals, Dana Islas, OTR, Laura Thompson, OTA, and Paula Speers, COTA.
Thank you for all the wonderful care you give to your patients on a daily basis.
Occupational Therapy Goals for Helping Patients Become as Independent as Possible in their Daily Living:
- Assistance with loss of upper body strength, poor endurance, impaired safety or problems with balance
- Assistance with limited flexibility, precautions secondary to surgery, impaired balance
- Improve sit balance, hand weakness and/or poor eye-hand coordination, poor positioning
- Assistance with vision loss, impaired sensation of hands, impaired fine motor coordination
- Poor positioning in wheel chair and/or bed, inadequate caregiver skills, improper or lack of equipment
- Improve shortness of breath and fatigue with minimal exertion
- Assistance with identifying structural barriers, blocked pathways or narrow doorways that limit access into and/or throughout the home