Occupational therapy (OT) is the use of assessment and treatment to develop, recover, or maintain the daily living and work skills of people with a physical, mental, or cognitive disorder.
Occupational therapists focus much of their work on identifying and eliminating environmental barriers to independence and participation in daily activities.
Occupational therapy is a patient-catered practice that places emphasis on the progress towards the patient’s goals.
Occupational therapy interventions focus on adapting the environment, modifying the task, teaching the skill, and educating the patient/family in order to increase participation in performance of daily activities, particularly those that are meaningful to the patient.
Occupational therapists work closely with multidisciplinary professionals e.g. physiotherapists, speech therapists, rehabilitation psychologist and social worker, nursing and the community health providers.
Services provided at I-NK:
- Improve arousability, awareness, orientation (Coma Stimulation Program)
- Early mobilization
- Positioning of neurological patients to prevent deformity, contracture and bed sores
- Orthotics, splints, braces and casts
- Desensitization
- Sensory re-education
- Sensory integration therapy (SIT)
- Neurodevelopmental Therapy
- Brunstorm’s and Rood’s approach for improving motor recovery in stroke patients
- Proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation (PNF)
- Constraint induced movement therapy (CIMT)
- Driving assessment to return to driving
- Mirror visual feedback therapy
- Visual rehabilitation
- Cognitive perceptual retraining
- Activity of daily living (ADL) retraining/training
- Environmental modification
- Joint protection, energy conservation and work simplification training
- Ergonomic modification
- Life style modification
- Virtual Reality Rehabilitation
- Functional Electrical Stimulation
- Fluidotherapy
- Robotic hand therapy to improve hand function in stroke patients
- Research and development
Patient population:
- Cardio vascular accident (CVA)/Stroke
- Traumatic brain injury (TBI)
- Spinal cord injury (SCI)
- Parkinsonism
- Dystonia
- Movement disorders
- Motor neuron disease
- Multiple sclerosis
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Work related repetitive joint stress:
1. Carpel tunnel syndrome
2. Low back pain and other similar conditions -
Developmental disorders like
1. Autism spectrum disorder (ASD)
2. Cerebral palsy
3. Attention deficit hyperactive disorder (ADHD)
4. Down’s syndrome
5. Learning disorders
6. Developmental coordination disorders
7. Muscular dystrophy and other similar conditions
Anamika
- Bachelor of Occupational Therapy from National Institute for Locomotor Disabilities (NILD) Kolkata.
- Master in Occupational Therapy with specialization in Orthopaedic Rehabilitation from National Institute for Locomotor Disabilities (NILD) Kolkata.
- Research on: Effect of Agility Exercises combined with strength training on Physical Function, Balance and Quality of life in subjects with Knee Osteoarthritis.
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Special interest:
1. Ergonomic modification.
2. Orthopaedic disorders and condition. - Joined Institute of Neurosciences in 2021.
Riya Ghosh
- Bachelor of Occupational Therapy from National Institute for Locomotor Disabilities (NILD), Kolkata
- Master of Occupational Therapy with specialisation in Orthopaedics from National Institute for Locomotor Disabilities (NILD), Kolkata
- Research: Effect of Occupational Load Special Exercise Protocol along with and without Baltimore Therapeutic Equipment (BTE) On Cumulative Trauma Disorder of Upper Limb among Workers.
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Special interest:
1. Orthopedic conditions rehabilitation and RTW program
2. Sensory Integration - Joined I-NK on September 2023
Priyanka Patra
- Bachelor of Occupational Therapy from National Institute for Locomotor Disabilities (Kolkata) , West Bengal University of Health Sciences, sep 2014-August 2019, Full Time
- Master’s In Occupational Therapy from from Swami Vivekanand National Institute of Rehabilitation Training and Research (SVNIRTAR), Cuttack, Utkal University,October 2019-March 2023,Full Time
- Research: COMPARING THE EFFECT OF KINESIO TAPING VS HAND SPLINTING WITH ISOMETRIC EXERCISES ON HAND FUNCTION IN PATIENTS WITH RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS (Guided by : Pragyan Singh, Dr Prasanta Padhan (Rheumatologist KIMS hospital)
- Specialisation: Hand Rehab , One year experience in pediatric rehabilitation & sensory integration
- Field of interest: Hand splinting,Virtual Reality,Assitive & Adaptive devices ,Sensory Intergration
- Joined I-NK on March, 2023
Sushree Ipsita
- Bachelor in Occupational Therapy from Swami Vivekanand National Institute of Rehabilitation Training and Research (SVNIRTAR), Cuttack, Odisha Utkal University, in 2013.
- Master in Occupational Therapy with the Specialization in ‘Hand rehabilitation’, from Swami Vivekanand National Institute of Rehabilitation Training and Research (SVNIRTAR), Cuttack, Odisha, in 2017.
- Research work- To compare the effect of kinesiotaping adjunctively with hand exercise on hand function of stage 1 & stage 2 of Rheumatoid arthritis
- Special interest- Hand rehabilitation
- Joined on I-NK in 2021
Janardan Patra
- Bachelor in Occupational Therapy from Swami Vivekanand National Institute of Rehabilitation Training and Research (SVNIRTAR), Utkal University in 2014.
- Master in Occupational Therapy with the Specialization in ‘Rehabilitation’, from Swami Vivekanand National Institute of Rehabilitation Training and Research (SVNIRTAR), Cuttack, Odisha, in 2018.
- Fellowship in Neurorehabilitation, Apollo Hospital, Hyderabad in 2016.
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Research work on –
1. Inclined standing unit for children with cerebral palsy
2. Effects of Cognitive Training on Gait Parameter While Talking During Walking Among Stroke Survivors - Joined Institute of Neurosciences Kolkata in 2019.
Pew Majumdar Dutta
- Bachelor of Occupational Therapy from National Institute for Locomotor Disabilities (Kolkata)
- Masters in Occupational Therapy from All India Institute of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (Mumbai) [Specialized in Pediatric Developmental Disabilities]
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Special interest in :-
1. Pediatric /Adult neurological problems,
2. Early intervention, NICU therapy program,
3. Orthopaedical hand injuries,
4. Stroke hand,
5. Dyslexia,
6. Handwriting Problems,
7. Wheelchair Prescription,
8. Virtual Reality Gaming
Technology application,
9. Cognitive Rehabilitation,
10. Coma Stimulation,
11. Handicapped Driving
Assessment - Publication:- topic- “Comparison of visual motor integration skills in pre- school children” Journal- International Journal of Health Sciences and Research, 2020
- Award- Medical research honors for outstanding dissertation entitled “Comparison of visual motor integration skills in pre- school children” at All India Institute of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Mumbai, in 2017 from Occupational Therapy department.
Coma stimulation
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