Our Occupational Therapist/Certified Hand Therapist treats a wide variety of upper extremity injuries including:
An Occupational Therapist (OT) can work in a multitude of different settings treating various diagnosis. The goals of Occupational Therapists, regardless of the patient’s diagnosis, is to maximize a patient’s independence to be able to perform life tasks that are important to that individual.
When an Occupational Therapist treats chronic pain patients one of the first items they do, is an assessment of what activities of daily living patients are having difficulty performing. These activities can be self-care, church, homemaking, school, work or community. An Occupational Therapist job is to teach patients how to carry out their functional tasks successfully without making their pain worse.
You will meet with your OT professional who will perform an evaluation and work with you to set up treatment goals. Normally the OT will work with you for 8-10 visits to achieve these goals, modifying the timeline per individual patient.
Once the OT identifies what activities are important to the individual patients there are multiple treatment interventions the OT can suggest. They can often modify the task using adaptive equipment, change the environment, or teach the patient new ways of performing the task using joint protection principals. OT’s take a more holistic approach in treating chronic pain patients with the goal of returning the patient to their highest level of functional ability.
I’ve had multiple surgeries on both of my legs and painful issues with my spine as well. My primary care physician suggested pain management. That was when I found Ubylee. My level of care from both Dr. Aranoff and Julie have been nothing short of world class, and this includes every team member of the Ubylee practice that I have had the pleasure of meeting and interacting with.
The individual treatments and care that I’ve received from Physical Therapy has been simply amazing. The attention to detail has been unlike any other PT that I have encountered. Every one of my sessions has been one on one and the exercises and treatments were designed and explained in great detail specifically for me.
Will I ever be back to 100%, no, but their compassion and treatment have helped me make things more manageable and for this I am forever grateful.
Dr. Marino has been very helpful in the process of helping me recover my ruptured discs, greatly improving, great doctor.
I have benn a patient for some time now, from day one, Paul has been nothing but a gem to me. He makes sure that all my needs are met. He listens to what your concern is and will find a solution. Paul is an amazing doctor and I will recommend him to anyone that needs a great pain management doctor and am so thankful to have found Ubylee.