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.