Independence, ability to act and participation through training

Ergotherapy is used for movement disorders, body sensation and nerve conduction disorders, psychological and socio-emotional problems at any age, especially when restrictions threaten self-sufficiency in everyday life and social integration into the environment. Through specific therapies, environmental adaptation, the use of aids and targeted counselling, independence, the ability to act in everyday life, social participation and thus the maintenance or improvement of quality of life are to be achieved.

In order to do justice to the individual situation of each individual, a detailed and precise assessment and analysis of the environmental factors is important before starting the therapy.

Examples from occupational therapy: Training of daily life activities (ADL), individual adaptation of occupational therapy splints, graphomotoric training, perception-enhancing treatment concepts (here: mirror therapy).

Self-help training/training in daily life activities (ADL): body care, dressing, eating and drinking, etc.
Joint protection counselling or joint protection training
Sensitivity training and fine motor training
motor-functional therapy
sensorimotor-perceptive therapy
ergotherapeutic brain performance training
psychological-functional treatment
functional treatment techniques/hand therapy
Awareness-raising/desensitisation measures
scar treatment
Tape systems
thermal applications (cold or heat therapy, e.g. paraffin bath)
individual adaptation of ergotherapeutic splints for the hand (e.g. positioning splints, rheumatic splints, functional splints, etc.)
advice on and adaptation of aids
Training of working and everyday skills with regard to ergotherapeutic splints and aids
Training in compensation techniques such as learning substitute functions, one-handed training, etc.
Advice on integration into the domestic environment, advice on living space adaptation
Advice on integration into the professional and social environment, workplace analysis
training of relatives
graphomotoric training (writing training)
coordination training
Perceptual treatment concepts, e.g. perfetti, affolter, mirror therapy
gaseous stimulation, relaxation methods, etc.
Treatments on a neurophysiological basis, e.g. Bobath's, etc.
Mobilisation for contracture prophylaxis, especially of the upper extremity