What Occupational Therapy Can Do
Under Medicare Guidelines

    Under Medicare guidelines, Occupational Therapy may only be started in conjunction with one or more of the following services:  skilled nursing, physical therapy or speech therapy.  

      • Increase abilities in daily living with bathing, eating,
        dressing, grooming and hygiene.
      • Increase ability in cooking, housekeeping, safety issues
        or money management after an illness or injury.
      • Teach techniques to simplify work and save energy
        to help manage fatigue.   
      • Increase abilities to distinguish and respond to sensation
        including pressure, temperature or touch.  
      • Increase recognition of location, people, time of year,
        month or day.
      • Improve body and environment awareness.
      • Provide splints to correct or prevent deformities.
      • Correct or improve positioning in a wheelchair to allow
        greater movement.
      • Increase sitting or standing balance to allow greater
        freedom to perform daily tasks safely.
      • Increase ability to perform small hand movements such
        as fastening buttons, hooks, using utensils and zipping zippers.
      • Increase movement in limbs affected by stroke.
      • Restore abilities to sequence for those who may forget
        what activity comes next.
      • Increase ability to maneuver a wheelchair for greater mobility
        and independence.
 

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