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Occupational therapy

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At UKBB, occupational therapy is used for children whose abilities are impaired in the following areas:

Action planning and execution (e.g. everyday activities such as getting dressed, tying shoes, packing a school bag, etc.)
Motor skills (body movements)
Sensory system (ability to perceive)
Mental and cognitive abilities (attention, memory, learning, social behaviour, creativity)

Goals

The aim of occupational therapy is to enable the children and adolescents receiving treatment to be as independent and capable as possible in their everyday lives and to help them overcome various difficulties. Following an assessment, the therapists formulate activity goals together with the children and their parents as the basis for the subsequent therapy.

Diagnostics

Standardised, diagnostic clarifications in various areas, e.g. handedness, attention, perception or the ability to move, can also be carried out.

Occupational therapy is prescribed in outpatient and inpatient settings for the following problems:

Attention deficit disorder with or without hyperactivity
Disorders of social behaviour
Partial performance disorders and developmental delays
Autism spectrum disorders
Problems with mobility (clumsy children, children with cerebral palsy)
Perceptual disorders in various areas
Graphomotor and fine motor difficulties

Methodology

Various treatment methods, some of which have been evaluated, are used as the basis of the programme. These include: sensory integration therapy, Bobath NDT, CO-OP.

Both individual and group therapies are offered for the treatment of attention problems or difficulties with behaviour in group situations. For example, we work with the Marburg concentration training (for 5 to 7-year-olds and 8 to 12-year-olds), the Attentioner programme or social skills training. In the area of visual perception, newer methods such as "KlAbauTer" and "Dimensioner" are used.

Offer

Concentration training in occupational therapy

Occupational therapy social skills training

Constraint-induced movement therapy (CIMT)

Another service offered by occupational therapy is the treatment of traumatic hand injuries and deformities in children. This includes the treatment of injuries to the tendons, ligaments, nerves and bones of the arms and hands. After acute medical treatment, individualised splints are fitted (functional therapy) and everyday training is used. Regular check-ups in the interdisciplinary Hand consultation takes place in co-operation with the specialist medical care.

For children with scars following traumatic or burn injuries, various (child-appropriate) techniques are used and parents are instructed on how to implement the necessary measures at home. Here, too, there is continuous, specialised cooperation in the interdisciplinary team. Burns consultation.