Occupational Therapy is committed to assisting the recovery and rehabilitation of individuals with cognitive, neuromuscular, orthopedic, and other physical disabilities through meaningful and purposeful activities. Treatment approaches are designed to overcome dysfunction, compensate for deficits, and ultimately, enhance the ability of individuals to function independently. It is occupational therapy's mission to prevent injury or disability, to restore individuals' functional capacities to an optimum level, and to assist them in maintaining that level.

Services

• Acute Care Setting - Interventions are geared toward maximizing the individual's level of functioning in preparation for the next level of care. 
• Modified Constraint Induced Therapy
• Outpatient Upper Extremity/ Hand Therapy - Treatment of a variety of upper extremity injuries such as tendon injuries, fractures, entrapment syndromes, nerve transpositions and other orthopedic/peripheral nerve injuries. Intervention may include fabrication of splints to increase range of motion and provide protective, corrective or functional positioning of upper extremity.
• Outpatient Neurological Rehabilitation - Cognitive, visual-perceptual and neuromuscular retraining interventions geared toward enhancement of performance in activities of daily living are provided to those individuals who have sustained central nervous system trauma.
• Pediatric Rehabilitation - Interventions are developed to promote fine and gross motor development, sensory integration and age-appropriate self help skills. Parent education is an important component in the child's treatment. Services are provided in the neonatal and pediatric intensive care units, inpatient settings, and outpatient settings in-hospital and at a satellite clinic in Morristown. 
• Industrial Rehabilitation - Comprehensive rehabilitation of the injured worker, including functional capacity evaluations and on-site industrial assessments.

Staff

Stephanie Kirby, OT
Specialty Area: Pediatrics
UT Memphis 1996

Carolyn Pendergast, OT, CHT 
Specialty Area: Outpatient hand therapy, outpatient neuro and acute
Texas Women's University-Houston 1999

Jennifer Rudl, OT 
Florida International University 1993

Jessica Lange, OT
UT Chattanooga 2002