Occupational Therapy

Occupational Therapy utilizes purposeful, goal-directed activity to prevent, improve or restore physical and/or cognitive impairments to allow patients to lead independent, productive, and satisfying lives. Services include:

• Specialized self-care training to increase independence

• Community reintegration and life skills training

• Assessment and treatment for work performance skills

• Home management training

• Home safety and accessibility evaluations and recommendations

• Cognitive and visual-perceptual retraining

• Community reintegration training

• Life skills training

• Assessment, fitting, and training for use of adaptive and assistive equipment and splints

• Joint protection training for arthritis

• Low vision training in conjunction with an optometrist to improve functional vision and improve ability to use low-vision aids, techniques and technology in everyday life

• Body mechanics and ergonomics training to improve independence and reduce pain with work or everyday tasks

• Family training

• Upper extremity (arm and hand) strengthening, stretching and coordination training to improve functional use

• CCS-paneled Occupational Therapist on staff

At Oroville Hospital's Rehabilitation Center, we also have the only Saebo-trained therapist in Oroville able to fit and train you with a Saebo device aimed at regaining arm and hand function after stroke or head injury.