Occupational Therapy at the Parkinson’s Disease Clinic Ortenau

It is our aim to enable the patient to be as independent as possible and have freedom of movement in everyday life by improving, restoring or compensating the patient’s impaired skills.

The following treatments, tailored to the patient’s individual needs, are applied:

Therapies offered

Training of everyday life activities with the goal of as high a level of independence as possible, e.g. when dressing or undressing
Training of transfers and change of body position
Advice on suitable aids and testing of aids
Development of strategies for food-intake
Writing exercises
Fine and gross motor training
Development of physiological movements
Development of compensation strategies
Sensory and perception exercises
Training of cognitive skills

Applied therapy concepts:

Bobath
Manual therapy of the upper extremities
Improvement of the scope of movement according to the LSVT BIG exercise program.

Therapy aids used:

Functional therapy aids, e.g. screwing board, therapeutic putty
Craft and creative therapy aids, e.g. rattan cane, silk painting, mosaics
Cognitive training using the COGPACK® software

For download: Hilfen im Alltag (pdf, 54 KB) (Aids for every-day life)