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Occupational therapy can help you if you have a physical, psychological, neurological, or orthopaedic condition that hinders your ability to do everyday tasks.
Occupational therapy aims to help maximise functional independence in everyday tasks such as personal care; household tasks such as preparing food, cleaning, laundry, and gardening; getting into the community by car or public transport; engaging in leisure activities and returning to work or education. Occupational therapy can also help with cognition including memory, planning, and organisation.
Benefits include:
Our occupational therapy plan is unique and customised to suit your specific needs. Your occupational therapist will focus on improving your ability to do everyday tasks and provide you with a safe living environment so you can return to your previous lifestyle as much as possible.
This may mean practicing new or alternative ways to improve daily living skills, providing equipment, cognitive strategies, or even or consulting on home modifications or assistive technology and equipment.
Retraining of transfers including bed, toilet, shower, chair, and car.
Upper limb therapy for spasticity and hypertonicity management, coordination, strength and fine motor skills. 
Assessing and retraining activities of daily living including showering, toileting, dressing and feeding.
Increasing ability to complete domestic tasks such as meal preparation, household cleaning, laundry, shopping.
Cognitive assessment and retraining.
Prescribing aids to achieve independence.
Prescribing wheelchair and seating. 
Car modifications and adaptation recommendations.
Home assessment, recommendations for home modifications and prescription of equipment for safety in the home.
Community access e.g. using public transport, grocery shopping and engaging in social groupsThere are several funding options available to access our programs. This includes:
Fees and charges are dependent upon your health fund and level of cover. Please check with your health fund if any additional charges apply.
Before you are admitted or before commencing your program, we will obtain approval from your insurer.
A broad range of health care and support services are available to meet the clinical needs of eligible veterans and eligible dependants.
If you do not have a funding stream, you can also choose to self-fund your program.
As a fully accredited NDIS provider, our NDIS Therapy Supports service provides NDIS participants with evidence-based allied health therapies to support, maintain and increase function and wellbeing. Click to find out more.
Simply contact our friendly team on (02) 8585 4900 or complete the online form below to discuss your goals and arrange an initial assessment.
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