Services available:
Occupational therapy services are provided through the Forest County Potawatomi Health & Wellness Center.
Referral:
A physician’s order for occupational therapy evaluation and treatment is needed for services. Talk with your primary care physician for a referral.
Phone: 715-478-4344
Fax: 715-478-7336
Monday – Thursday
7am – 5pm
Services Provided:
- Cognition (memory, attention, sequencing, adaptations)
- ADL’s (eating, bathing, dressing, grooming, toileting, etc.)
- I-ADL’s (homemaking tasks, house management, leisure skills, shopping tasks, etc.)
- Upper extremity and hand injuries/pain
- Neurological Disorders
- Home Safety and Modifications
- Carpal tunnel
- Epicondylitis (medial and lateral)
Occupational Therapy provides services across the lifespan.
Expertise includes:
- Activity and environmental analysis
- Use of therapeutic modalities
- Interventions to increase engagement in tasks while reducing the barriers for participation.
Services are provided for:
- Children & Youth
- Rehabilitation & Disability
- Health & Wellness
- Work – Ergonomics
- Productive Aging
- Behavioral Health
Services Provided:
- Cognition (memory, attention, sequencing, adaptations)
- ADL’s (eating, bathing, dressing, grooming, toileting, etc.)
- I-ADL’s (homemaking tasks, house management, leisure skills, shopping tasks, etc.)
- Upper extremity and hand injuries/pain
- Neurological Disorders
- Home Safety and Modifications
- Carpal tunnel
- Epicondylitis (medial and lateral)
Customized treatment programs for all ages may focus on:
- Motor skills: fine and gross motor
- Sensory interventions: body awareness, tactile interventions, visual-perceptual skills
- ADL/IADL (activities of daily living/ instrumental activities of daily living): dressing, grooming, meal preparation, task organization, home safety
- Cognitive skills: attention, sequencing, problem-solving, executive functioning
- Adaptive equipment: simple to complex (adaptive utensils, home modifications, etc.)
- Strengthening: progressive resistive exercises
- Life and social skills training: focusing on improvement in daily interactions in the natural environment
Services focus on:
- Habilitation: assisting with achieving developmental skills when impairments have caused a delay or initial acquisition of skills has not been achieved.
- Rehabilitation: treatment designed to facilitate the process of recovery from injury, illness or disease to as normal a condition as possible.
- Health and wellness: promotion of healthy living through participation in occupations.
Services Focus On:
- Habilitation: assisting with achieving developmental skills when impairments have caused a delay or initial acquisition of skills has not been achieved.
- Rehabilitation: treatment designed to facilitate the process of recovery from injury, illness or disease to as normal a condition as possible.
- Health and wellness: promotion of healthy living through participation in occupations.
Occupational Therapy
Phone: 715-478-4344 | Fax: 715-478-7336
Monday – Thursday 7am – 5pm
