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Provider Services

Occupational Therapy

Occupational therapy (OT)
provides vital care for everyday
functioning to help increase the
patient’s ability to meaningfully
participate in Activities of Daily
Living (ADLs) such as dressing,
feeding and bathing. This
interdisciplinary approach
restores overall function and improves outcomes. Our
occupational therapists:
• Help patients regain and adapt to their day-to-day
routines and activities
• Improve motor, visual, cognitive and perceptual skills so
that buttoning a shirt, putting on shoes or cutting food
becomes achievable
• Improve home safety with necessary modi cations to
allow patients to function despite weakness, endurance
or vision de cits
• Speed recovery and improve outcomes after a surgery
or hospitalization through exercise, environmental
modi cations, and/or wheelchair seating and
positioning program
Conditions where OT is bene cial include physical injury,
stroke, brain cancer, neurological conditions, diabetes,
arthritis and serious long-term illnesses.
Service Area: All ve boroughs of New York City and
Nassau, Su olk and Westchester Counties
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