Occupational therapy helps individuals achieve independence in many areas of their lives. Occupational therapy helps you develop the “skills for the job of living.” In addition to dealing with your physical well-being, OT practitioners address psychological, social and environmental factors that may hinder an individual’s functioning.

Physical and Occupational therapy services provided include:

• Functional capacity assessments
• Industrial consultations
• Orthopedic rehabilitation
• Rehabilitation from sports injuries
• Hand therapy
• Wound care (at Mercy’s central campus downtown)
• Stroke rehabilitation
• Spinal cord rehabilitation
• Head/brain injury rehabilitation
• Lymphedema management
• Pediatric therapy
• Osteoporosis exercise consultation
• Aquatic therapy (at Mercy’s downtown campus)