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Cancer Rehabilitation

Cancer Rehabilitation

Role of occupational therapy

Helps regain, enhance and maintain:

  1. Gross motor and fine motor control through functional activities.
  2. Endurance through graded exercises, guidance on work-rest balance, work simplifications and energy conservation techniques.
  3. Posture by guiding patients on proper positioning that needs to be followed throughout the day and various weight-bearing and weight-shifting activities.
  4. Body part alignment through movement, positioning and prescribing/fabricating upper limb. orthoses(preventing contractures and deformities) – will this be only upper limb or limbs.
  5. Psychosocial (emotional) well-being by facilitating return to daily routine activities, school/work, play, leisure and recreation tasks, communications and social interactions using therapeutic strategies, adaptive devices & techniques including modifications of the environment.
  6. Caretaker support through counselling and encouraging active involvement in setting goals.

Additonal roles of an occupational therapist

  1. Prescribing and fabricating splints and upper limb orthoses.
  2. Prescribing and fabricating low-cost assistive devices.

Help them gain their lost mobility! Help them live with Dignity!

Neuro-disabled patients deserve a comprehensive treatment ensuring their economical & emotional independence.

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