Occupational Therapy

Healing
by Doing

Professional Rehab Associates' occupational therapy services in Radford, Virginia are there to assist you, or your loved one, in participating in everyday life. Occupations are those meaningful activities that occupy your time and include those things you want and need to do.

occupational therapy services at professional rehab associates in Radford, Virginia patient putting on coat

Occupational Therapy practitioners can assist with helping people:

ADLs (activities of daily living) – dressing, bathing, toileting, grooming
IADLs (instrumental activities of daily living) – cooking, cleaning, washing clothes, grocery shopping, pet and child care
Sleep/Rest
Work (skills needed to engage in work)
Leisure (recreation and play)
Education (writing, organizational skills)
And more!

Our Radford, Va occupational therapists are trained experts at activity analysis and can provide clients with resources to adapt or modify occupations, regain function in their body, and adapt to their new abilities.

Benefits of Occupational Therapy

Regained sense of meaning in one’s life
Improved motor function
Improved independence with daily life and self-care skills
Improved handwriting and fine motor skills
Improved visual motor and visual perceptual skills
Adaptive Equipment to enable independent living skills
Strategies and tools to implement at home

The Professional Rehab, Inc. occupational team uses Standardized and Non-Standardized assessments to gather information about your performance and skill level. Our OTs work with you to develop individual plans. You are an important part of the process and help identify the daily activities that are most important for you. What is meaningful for you is what we tailor our services to help you achieve.

Our occupational therapists work with a variety of individuals, including those with Arthritis, Spina Bifida, Cerebral Palsy, Stroke, Orthopedic injuries, Dementia, Ehler’s Danlos Syndrome, Down Syndrome, Intellectual Disability, and more!

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Pediatric Occupational Therapy

Occupational Therapy is a great option to help children with or without a diagnosis who are struggling to engage in daily activities.

Importance of Pediatric Occupational Therapy

At PRA, our occupational therapy department is passionate about helping you and your family!

OT addresses skills and helps your child gain confidence and improve performance in Fine Motor, Gross Motor, Sensory Processing, and Visual Motor Skills. They can provide ways to adapt or change things at home and/or school to help the child be more successful. They can provide coaching and strategies to implement at home to help your child during daily routines.

Our team uses Standardized and Non-Standardized assessments to gather information about your child’s performance and skill level.

Our OTs work with you to develop individual plans. You are an important part of the process and help identify the daily activities that are most important for you. What is meaningful for you and your child is what we tailor our services to help you achieve. Most importantly, OT is fun for your child and many skills are addressed in a therapeutic and playful way!

What are daily activities that children do?

Playing
- Turn-taking games
- Independent or unstructured play
- With peers or siblings
Going to School
- Reading
- Writing
- Copying from the board
- Cutting with scissors
- Opening/closing bookbags, folders, etc.
Dressing Themselves
- Doing fasteners like buttons, zippers, snaps
- Tying shoelaces
Brushing Teeth
Eating, Feeding Themselves
Sleeping

We work with a variety of individuals, including those with Cerebral Palsy, Down Syndrome, Developmental Delay, Spina Bifida, Learning Difficulties, Autism, Sensory Processing Disorders, and more!

We work with a variety of individuals, including those with Cerebral Palsy, Down Syndrome, Developmental Delay, Spina Bifida, Learning Difficulties, Autism, Sensory Processing Disorders, and more!

We can work on helping your child to develop and improve:

Fine Motor Skills (using small muscles in their hand and wrist)
- Grasp & Release
- Holding a pencil
- Buttoning, unbuttoning
- Tying laces
Gross Motor Skills (how they move their bodies)
- Run
- Jump
- Skip
- Throw & catch
Visual Motor Integration (how they understand what is seen and move their body in response, or hand-eye coordination)
- Scanning left-right
- Copying words from a board
- Handwriting
Visual Perception Skills (how to understand what the eyes are seeing)
Sensory Processing Skills (how to interpret sensations)

Occupational Therapy Success Stories

Each of our patients within the New River Valley have been able to see more results through our occupational therapy services. These are just a few of the success stories that we have been able to take joy in with our patients. Hover over the image to see the finished product.