Occupational Therapy
Arukah Rehab Corporation offers Occupational Therapy consulting services to assess and treat a wide range of conditions from physical and brain injuries, neurological, musculoskeletal, mental illness, developmental delays and other dysfunctions. Our clients range from young children with developmental delays to elderly with illness or dysfunction to MVA ( motor vehicle accident ) or other injury related cases. We incorporate a multidisciplinary approach and offer Occupational Therapy, Kinesiology, and Physiotherapy through our service partners.
Occupational Therapists (OTs) are the only health professionals that take into account the relationship between a client, the environment, activities/roles perspective while assessing and recommending adaptive equipment or environment modifications.
Our Occupational Therapists also provide services such as assessments/consultations and recommendations for seating and wheelchair mobility systems. This includes individually configured manual wheelchair systems, power wheelchair systems, adaptive seating systems, alternative positioning systems, and other mobility devices
Our Occupational Therapists will ensure the specific equipment is designed to meet each client’s needs for supporting posture and alignment, function and safety, and work with a client’s habits, lifestyle, occupations/activities and their environment. When assessing and recommending complex equipment, our Occupational Therapists will take into account a client’s particular situation/condition, their occupations/activities, functional goals, needs and the environment.
These are just some of the services we provide:
- Identifying a client’s needs, goals, obstacles and supports necessary to engage in participation in meaningful activities, roles, and occupations.
- Cognitive and physical assessments plus treatment plan.
- Consultations and strategies that promote healthy habits in physical, mental, emotional and social well being.
- Home safety and accessibility assessments.
- Ergonomic analysis at home and or the work place
- Adaptive equipment recommendations; equipment, technology, and environmental modifications to increase accessibility.
- Fitting, customizing, and configuring equipment to meet our clients’ specific needs.
- Training clients, caregivers, and family members on safety and smooth operation of equipment and technology use.
- Active rehabilitation with our kinesiologist in a gym or home to reach functional goals. Safe movements are taught to adapt to injuries or dysfunction.
- Hospital discharge coordination.
- Advocating for funding approval from insurance where applicable and obtaining the necessary equipment to assist or to adapt, modify an environment to improve engagement in activities that have meaning to our individual clients
- Pain management
- Brain injury rehabilitation.
- Vocational planning and return to work program.
- Case management plus follow up consultations, assessments, and progress reports.
OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY IS ABOUT HELPING YOU REACH YOUR FUNCTIONAL AND ACTIVITY GOALS!
ADLS ( ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING. )
- Ambulating
An individual’s ability to change from one position to the other and to walk independently - Eating
Whether an individual’s is able to feed themselves or requires assistance - Personal hygiene
Bathing, grooming, oral, nail and hair care - Continence management
An individual’s mental and physical ability to safely and properly use the washroom - Dressing
An individual’s ability to choose and wear the appropriate clothing for various occasions
An individual’s ability to change from one position to the other and to walk independently
Whether an individual’s is able to feed themselves or requires assistance
Bathing, grooming, oral, nail and hair care
An individual’s mental and physical ability to safely and properly use the washroom
An individual’s ability to choose and wear the appropriate clothing for various occasions
IADLS ( INSTRUMENTAL ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING
- Companionship and mental support
This is a basic need and essential to keep an individual in a positive state of mind. - Transportation and shopping
An individual’s ability to can go out and get groceries and medications without assistance. - Communicating with people
Social interactions and managing the household’s phones, mail and housekeeping for guest. - Household management
Cleaning, tidying, removing garbage and clutter, doing laundry and folding clothes - Preparing meals
Meal preparation and planning, including shopping and storing groceries - Managing medications
The amount of assistance required to get prescriptions filled, keeping medications up to date and taking medications on time and in the right dosages - Managing finances
How much assistance an individual may need in managing bank accounts and paying bills on a timely basis.
This is a basic need and essential to keep an individual in a positive state of mind.
An individual’s ability to can go out and get groceries and medications without assistance.
Social interactions and managing the household’s phones, mail and housekeeping for guest.
Cleaning, tidying, removing garbage and clutter, doing laundry and folding clothes
Meal preparation and planning, including shopping and storing groceries
The amount of assistance required to get prescriptions filled, keeping medications up to date and taking medications on time and in the right dosages
How much assistance an individual may need in managing bank accounts and paying bills on a timely basis.
OTS SPECIALIZE IN ASSESSING FUNCTION, CASE MANAGEMENT AND MUCH MORE!
The scope of an OT is very broad and covers physical, mental and psycho-social functioning. Occupations refer to the daily activities people engage in as individuals or with others and in their community. This includes personal self-care, home management, productivity such as work, social interaction, leisure, and other activities with meaning. Occupational therapy improves, adapts or restores the ability to participate in such activities despite impairments or limitations in physical, mental and psychosocial functioning. Occupational Therapists provide case management, consulting, assessments, treatment planning, and solutions to improve or regain function or adaptations to restore engagement in activities. What sets Occupational Therapy apart is, not only can it restore, or optimizes regaining functional abilities in both physical or mental, but encourages rehabilitation with a primary focus on the performance of activities required in daily life. Learn more!
OCCUPATIONAL THERAPISTS ARE CREATIVE PROBLEM SOLVERS
Occupational Therapists (OTs) are creative problem solvers; if there is an activity with meaning that you want to be able to do again, OTs will manage your rehabilitation and specialize in finding a way for you to be able to do that activity again with independence. OTs can handle a wide variety of cases including cognitive retraining, mental illness, developmental delays in children, injuries, disabilities and much more!
HEALTH CONDITIONS WE TREAT…
Arukah Rehab treats a wide range of health conditions from motor vehicle injuries, sports injuries, physical health, brain injuries, neurological, mental illness, musculoskeletal, developmental delays and other dysfunctions. At Arukah Rehab we will help you achieve your functional goals in all aspects of life through the use of purposeful activities or interventions that will optimize health and prevent injury or disability. We will help you adapt or restore function to recover your independence with activities of daily living and instrumental activities of daily living. Learn more about our services!
HOSPITAL DISCHARGE, HOME SAFETY ASSESSMENTS, SUPPORTS
Arukah Rehab Occupational Therapists are highly experienced in managing hospital discharge cases. Our OTs do home safety assessments, set up home care supports and assist with applications or advocating for insurance funding. We will ensure a smooth and safe transition to your home after an accident or illness. Our OTs will work with the client at home to assess their functional mobility and more to recommend the correct adaptive equipment to do a task safely such as bathing, toileting and much more. Our OTs will assess the home and recommend the necessary solutions for accessibility and function.
WALKERS, WHEELCHAIRS & OTHER ADAPTIVE EQUIPMENT
Occupational Therapists (OTs) are the only health professionals that take into account not only restoring the physical body, but at the same time addressing mental, psychosocial, emotional, and environmental factors with the specific activity goal of the client for the entire life span, when intervening therapy or recommending adaptive equipment or environmental modifications.
Arukah Rehab Occupational Therapists will also help you by doing assessments/consultations and recommendations for seating and wheelchair mobility systems. This includes individually configured manual wheelchair systems, power wheelchair systems, adaptive seating systems, alternative positioning systems, and other mobility devices.
Arukah Rehab Occupational Therapists will ensure the specific equipment is designed to meet each client’s needs for supporting posture and alignment, function and safety, and work with a client’s habits, lifestyle, occupations/activities, and their environment. When assessing and recommending complex equipment, our Occupational Therapists will take into account a client’s particular situation/condition, their occupations/activities, functional goals, needs, and the environment.
WORKPLACE ASSESSMENTS-ERGONOMICS, MODIFICATIONS, & RETURN TO WORK PROGRAM
Arukah Rehab Occupational Therapists cover a full range of services to help clients with physical, cognitive, psychological and mental challenges. We provide services for workplace assessments, ergonomic assessments, and a gradual return to work program.
Our OTs will also manage your case by working with your doctor and a multidisciplinary team of health professionals, including communication with your lawyer, ICBC or WCB, to maximize your results and meet your goals.
We will assess your functional mobility and set up a return to work and rehabilitation plan. Based on OT assessments, we will advocate for your funding where applicable from insurance. Our OTs will help you manage pain, modify your work environment where possible, help you return to work and reach your functional goals.