Garrett Rehab Services - Occupational Therapy

Garrett Rehab Services • 6500 Thayer Center • Oakland, MD 21550 • 301.334.1863

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Our Occupational Therapy program is goal oriented-it is structured to increase independence in those who have experienced a loss of ability caused by aging, illness, injury or developmental disability. Our therapists provide skills for individuals to work toward returning to daily tasks of living-from buttoning a shirt to brushing their teeth with minimum discomfort and maximum productivity.

Work Conditioning

The goal of occupational therapy is to help individuals develop, maintain, or regain skills they need to engage in self-care, work, and leisure activities. Our therapists are trained to provide people with:

Retraining with activities of daily living (ADL) Adaptive equipment to increase independence Custom splinting for proper alignment after injury
Sensorimotor treatment to regain strength, endurance, ROM and coordination

Work Conditioning
An occupationally based service that GRS offers is work hardening/conditioning and Functional Capacity Evaluations (FCE). These evaluations help determine an individual’s working limitations. The program focuses on returning individual’s back to work after a course of therapeutic treatment.

Functional Capacity Evaluation (FCE)
Garrett Rehab Services offers Functional Capacity Evaluation by the Blankenship Group. Functional Capacity Evaluations, or an FCE is an evaluation developed to examine a person’s current work ability, both physical capability and motivational aspects after a specific work related or non-work related medical condition. The main goal of the FCE is to determine the injured worker’s work ability to return to current job or modified job, and to determine a person’s functional loss following injury. An FCE is completed by a trained and certified physical or occupational therapist on site.

Pre-Driving Assessment
Garrett Rehab Services also provides Pre-Driving Assessments that targets persons with a new medical condition, a defect, or other ailments that limit driving ability. Our occupational therapist takes a complete medical history, a full functional status of both upper and lower extremities, cognitive status, problem solving skills, general driving knowledge, and reaction time during the pre-assessment. From here it is determined if adaptive driving equipment will allow independence with driving or if the patient is not a good candidate to continue with driving skills. An on-the-driving assessment is then followed through with a local driving school for appropriate candidates.

Garrett Rehab Services
6500 Thayer Center
Oakland, MD 21550
phone: 301.334.1863