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OT is the treatment which activity involves the patients to improve their physical, mental, physiological status by restoring and enhancing the performance of those skills which are essential for a self-supporting lifestyle & minimize the disability.

Occupational Therapist evaluates and plan your individual program to help you reach your maximum level of independence in activities of daily living such as eating dressing, grooming, bathing, toileting, kitchen tasks, home living skills and driving.

Occupational therapist work with you on motor coordination and strength to help with such tasks as buttoning tying shoes and writing, they may assist you with cognitive/ perceptual retraining which includes attention, memory problem solving organization and visual pre-emption activities.

Occupational therapist also helps you select adaptive equipment and devices you may need to make activities easier.

Physiotherapy provides services to individual in order to develop maintain and restore maximum movement and functional ability thorough life.

A detailed evaluation of your physical abilities is performed by your physiotherapist. Who works with you in the areas of bed and wheelchair mobility and walking when appropriate?

Your mobility goals and treatment program are developed in collaboration with your physiotherapist. Your program may includes mobility trainers, ambulation training, exercise, and we of modalities such as heat / could electrical stimulation or ultrasound.

If you experience communication or swallowing problem as a result of your illness or injury a speech therapist will work with you, His/ Her aim is to improve speech comprehension thinking, memory and reading and working skills with special emphasis a social communication swallowing problem are carefully assessed and treated.

SNMIBSR provide services of psychologist also. Our psychologist assesses the client’s behavior and needs via observation, interviews, and psychometric tests. They provide support and advice to caretakers. They talk to individuals and fosters their positive mental health and personal growth and helps to evaluate patient’s need and accommodates them accordingly. Psychologist helps to develops treatment plans. They provide counseling by leading group or individual sessions. They work to prevent diagnose and treat mental disorders and work with the physician, psychiatrist to determine the best course of treatment for patients.

A prosthesis is design for functional reason.
Prosthesis is an artificial limb that replaces a missing body part which may be lost through trauma, disease or congenital conditions.
Orthotics refers to orthoses. It’s a device that supports or corrects the function of a limb.
Splint is an appliance used to support part of a body or perform certain functions.
Splint is an appliance used to support or immobilise part of a body.
Calliper is a device which is applied to lower limb to give support or controlled a joint.

Functions of orthoses -
• Prevents deformity
• Corrects deformity
• Maintains correction
• Corrects instability
• Relieves pain
• Relieves weight bearing
• Facilitates ambulation

Orthotics and prosthetics is an allied health profession is concerned with design, development, fabricating fitting of prosthetics and orthotics appliances.

The orthotics are responsible for evaluating the patients functional and cosmetic needs designing the orthotics and prosthetic components,

We SNMSCI help you to choose a appropriate orthotics and prosthetic for your functional development.

Individualized leisure counselling and activities may be provided by a vocational/ recreation therapist to incorporate and reinforce skills learned from your other therapies you are helped to adapt or modify previous leisure activities and find new ones that you enjoy.

The focus of vocational/ recreational training is to help you return to the community with as independent and healthy a lifestyle as possible.

Contribution of the social worker to Rehabilitation: A social worker in Rehabilitation is basically an educator, advocate, and facilitator and also acts as a link between patients and family, and the community. Educator: as educators, they participate in teaching patients and their families in the nature of specific and impairment, their implication, they conduct classes either informal teaching settings and their conscious use of themselves. Model reflecting adaptive attitudes and behavior – by engaging patients and families in moving beyond the fear of disability.

Advocates – as advocates, they work with and on behalf of consumers to effect change through division on needed resources by making the internal and external systems more responsive to consumer needs and demands, they take an active role in aggravating social policy. They act as advocates for patients and families within the healthcare service system.

Collaborator – as collaborators utilize the knowledge of the system to foster interdisciplinary collaboration and maintain therapeutic effect and treatment, they educate other team members about psychological issues both specific and general.

Specialist – as a specialist, they provide consultancy on treatment.

The social work role in physical rehabilitation –

Social workers believe in the Intrinsic worth and dignity of every human being. They are dedicated to the welfare of individuals and families and to the pursuit of social justice for all. Social workers are pleased to serve their clients without discrimination on any grounds. The values of acceptance, self-determination, and respect for the Individual are fundamental to all forms of social work practice. Social work in physical rehabilitation adheres to the standard of practice and code of ethics.