Buffalo Occupational Therapy works with you to create a treatment plan that will meet your needs, accomplish your desired outcomes, and restore your hope in recovery.
Buffalo Occupational Therapy uses one-on-one treatment sessions and a neurological rehabilitative approach to help older adults, neurological performance, and those experiencing a decline in function.
“Buffalo Occupational Therapy is the difference. We don’t use cookie-cutter treatment plans or a mandatory number of visits. We don’t hand you a list of exercises or divide our attention. We work one-on-one with you, listen to your needs, collaborate with you, and determine what will work best for you to achieve the outcomes you desire. It’s about you– the whole you. What are your concerns? What are your most important needs? How can we help while protecting your time and financial assets?”
Occupational Therapy is crucial in every setting and all aspects of aging, whether you are 25 or 105.
Buffalo Occupational Therapy specialize in a Neuro Therapeutic Approach!
We strive to stay current in research and practice trends as well as implement evidence-based treatment approaches. Because of this, Buffalo Occupational Therapy uses an approach based in Neurological Rehabilitation to address aging deficits and neurological components of various ailments. Currently, we specialize in rehabilitation for Alzheimer’s and other dementias, Cerebral Vascular Accidents (strokes), and Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) rehabilitation. Helping you maximize your independence and help you live your best life is our priority!
Alzheimer's and other related dementias
How can we help ADRD?
– Enhance and maintain communication between brain and muscles
– Encourage the brain to maintain essential connections
– Strengthen and maintain executive functioning capabilities
– Staging
-Create habits for rote memory throughout the progression
-Maximize independence in self-care, hobbies, and activities
– Our hybrid approach which takes plan in clinic and progresses to in home sessions when appropriate is designed to ensure treatment progression remains relevant to your needs!
Cerebral Vascular Accident/ Stroke (CVA)
How can we help CVA?
– Enhance communication between brain and muscles
– Encourage the brain to redirect and reconfigure essential connections for function
– Address generalized weakness associated with hospitalization or sub-acute rehabilitation
– Address functions and structures affected by your stroke from head to toe!
– Use a neuro-centric approach to every treatment to ensure all interventions are invoking neural processes, neural plasticity, and repair of function!!
– Emphasis on psycho-social and perceptual-motor is treated with physical interventions as we believe mental/emotional health is just as important in the rehabilitation process!
– Increase range of motion and function in limbs experiencing high tone or low tone as a result of the stroke.
-Use conservative and alternative modalities to partner with rehabilitation activities.
– Maximize independence in daily activities, meaningful activities, hobbies, and more!!
– Our hybrid approach which takes place in clinic and progresses or partners with in-home sessions when appropriate which is designed to ensure treatment progression remains relevant to your needs!
Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
How can we help TBI?
– Enhance communication between brain and muscles
– Emphasis on psycho-social and perceptual-motor is addressed during each treatment (along with physical interventions) as we believe mental/emotional health is just as important in the rehabilitation process!
– Social participation skills, role-play scenarios for individuals experiencing flat affect or decreased emotional/verbal modulation, and community re-integration support.
– Encourage the brain to redirect and reconfigure essential connections for function
– Address generalized weakness associated with hospitalization or decreased participation in activities.
– Address functions and structures affected by your TBI from head to toe!
– Use a neuro-centric approach to every treatment to ensure all interventions are invoking neural processes, neural plasticity, and repair of function!!
– Increase range of motion and function in limbs experiencing high tone or low tone as a result of the stroke.
-Use conservative and alternative modalities to partner with rehabilitation activities.
– Maximize independence in daily activities, meaningful activities, hobbies, and more!!
-Provide advice, education, and feedback on medical processes, what to expect in the recovery process, adaptive equipment, durable medical equipment, compensation techniques, adaptations and more!
-Issue referrals for other relevant professionals who may help your therapeutic outcomes.
– Our hybrid approach which takes place in clinic and progresses or partners with in-home sessions when appropriate which is designed to ensure treatment progression remains relevant to your needs!
What other services can Buffalo Occupational Therapy offer to me?
Do we accept Referrals?
Buffalo Occupational Therapy accepts self-referrals through
direct access as well as referrals and prescriptions for
occupational therapy services from medical providers,
specialists, and Chiropractors. Because we know how
important it is to get started in occupational therapy right
away, we work with our patients to obtain the necessary
signatures and referrals for maximum insurance coverage.
Referring to Buffalo Occupational Therapy is simple!
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It is imperative you start an OT profile ASAP!
If you are 55 years or older, it may be in your best interest to contact an occupational therapist through Buffalo Occupational Therapy for a consult and/or evaluation to have a baseline before something happens. This is a crucial step in early detection of non age-related declines!