Occupational therapy is the use of assessment and intervention to develop, recover, or maintain meaningful activities (occupations) for people with disabilities, injuries or impairments. Occupational ...

If your rheumatoid arthritis (RA) symptoms interfere with day-to-day tasks, you may benefit from occupational therapy (OT ... talk to your doctor. RA treatment can involve many approaches ...

Ava Coughlan, an occupational ... something on top of the therapy we provide that will be really beneficial to patients." At ...

Occupational therapists work to improve the everyday life skills of people who experience physical, social, and psychological challenges by helping them to engage in meaningful tasks and occupations.

Methods: 324 consecutive patients with stroke from 12 Dutch hospitals were included in a prospective, non-randomised, parallel group study. In the experimental group (n = 223), nurses and ...

The treatment delivers electrical pulses to the brain during rehabilitation therapy ... but the stroke's limited that completely," he adds. Ava Coughlan, an occupational therapist, is here to ...

The findings add to evidence that a healthy gut means a healthy brain and pave the way for a treatment ... stroke are well-recognized and are treated by intensive physical and occupational therapy.

A stroke is a medical emergency. It can cause death and profound disability. Stroke is the fifth leading cause of death in the United States and a leading cause of disability. Read on to learn more ...

With survival after stroke improving, more people are discharged into the community with multiple ... PT who were members of the Association of Chartered Physiotherapists in Neurology (ACPIN) and OT ...