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Occupational Therapy

What is Occupational Therapy?

What is Occupational Therapy?

What is Occupational Therapy?

Occupational therapists are experts at assessing and treating barriers impeding abilities to participate in meaningful activities including self-care, leisure and productivity. 


As occupational therapists, we utilize your strengths to promote engagement in meaningful and relevant activities that may be impacted by illness, disease or injuries. This includes a person's emotional, social, and physical needs and functioning.

What can an OT do for me?

What is Occupational Therapy?

What is Occupational Therapy?

  • Assess your daily activities in your home, workplace or school
  • Develop individualized treatment plans to promote your engagement in important activities
  • Prescribe equipment/assistive devices to increase your safety and independence
  • Collaborate with your care team to maximize your recovery
  • Utilize multiple treatment approaches to target your complex needs including: cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectal behavioral therapy, trauma-informed care, neuro- and cognitive- rehabilitation, hand therapy, environmental modifications
  • Provide education to family and caregivers to support your recovery
  • Support and facilitate your client-centred goals

Benefits

What is Occupational Therapy?

Benefits

  • Manage symptoms of stress, anxiety, pain, fatigue, concussion, and mood.
  • Improve sleep Maximize your energy physically and mentally build consistent and healthy routines to keep your brain healthy 
  • Improve cognitive function, attention, memory, concentration, and organization.
  • Explore and create new connections to reduce isolation
  • Communicate more effectively about your needs
  • Help your family cope and adjust to a new way of life
  • Regain your quality of life

Social Work

What is Social Work?

What can an SW do for me?

What can an SW do for me?

Social workers provide specialized services, including individual counselling intervention, case management, client advocacy, prevention, and education. 


Creating family awareness and assisting families in understanding a patient's psycho-social struggle and creating mechanisms to support the individual's challenges is key to a social worker's involvement in the recovery process.

What can an SW do for me?

What can an SW do for me?

What can an SW do for me?

  • Identify psychological and psycho-social concerns (stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, adjusting to life crisis)
  • Monitor risks (suicide prevention, grief and loss, pressures related to being a caregiver)
  • Reduce potential harm for individuals following traumatic injury or illness
  • Address the client's psychological and psychosocial behaviours to engaging in rehabilitation and establish preventative relapse measures.
  • Connect individuals with the appropriate support network and systems navigation throughout the recovery

Social Work vs Psychology

What can an SW do for me?

Social Work vs Psychology

Social workers utilize holistic evidence-based theories and solutions to the social, behavioral, economic, or health problems faced by their clients by assessing the person in their environments.

Whereas, psychologists focus their efforts specifically on helping their patients address potentially damaging mental health issues. They use their advanced understanding of the mind to develop and implement interventions that can stimulate changes in a patient’s mental state.


The social worker will collaborate with your psychologist to address psychosocial issues (ex: housing, finances, needed referrals to community resources), provide emotional support, and re-enforce coping strategies discussed with the psychologist in the community.

Dietician

What is Dietician?

Assessment & Treatment

Assessment & Treatment

Dieticians use a holistic approach to assess all aspects of a client's life, including sleeping patterns, exercise routine, stress levels, social interactions, comorbidities, weight, and eating habits.


Medical Nutritional Therapy plays a key role in controlling inflammation, providing keys nutrients and minerals to rebuild injured tissue, minimize muscle atrophy and supporting overall strength.


Medical nutritional therapy needs to be tailored to every client according to their needs (age, injury type), laboratory results, eating habits, lifestyle, culture, stress levels, sleeping patterns, mobilization, and environmental aspects.

Assessment & Treatment

Assessment & Treatment

Assessment & Treatment

Our registered dietician will complete an in-depth personal assessment and develop a personalized dietary plan to address weight management, inflammation, chronic pain, spinal cord injury, mood disorders, acquired

brain injuries, and other specialized areas.


Dietitians work closely with your family doctor and medical rehabilitation team to obtain a better understand how of your lifestyle, medical history, and current diagnoses can all impact your recovery.

Benefits

Assessment & Treatment

Benefits

  • Help manage chronic diseases
  • Provide you with motivation, support, and accountability to meet your nutritional goals
  • Review your bloodwork to explore ways to improve your diet
  • Discuss anti-inflammatory foods to assist with pain management
  • Explore adequate acronutrient consumption to support brain, bone and wound healing
  • Investigate food and lifestyle behaviours to assist with promoting sleep
  • Examine food options to boost energy levels

Brain Injury and Post-Concussion Rehabilitation

Brain Injury & Concussion

Brain Injury & Concussion

Brain Injury & Concussion

If you have sustained a brain injury, you may need treatment and rehabilitation, perhaps on a long-term basis, to address your symptoms. Acquired brain injuries often result in cognitive, physical, emotional, and behavioural symptoms, leading to a loss of independence and isolation. 


Vitality Assessments Group provides intensive clinic and community-based rehabilitation and family support in a nurturing environment while adhering to best-practice standards. With personalized rehabilitation and lots of encouragement, our goal is to support complete recoveries in the most efficient time periods.

Brain Boost Program

Brain Injury & Concussion

Brain Injury & Concussion

Brain Boost is a four-week interdisciplinary concussion circuit program designed to support your concussion recovery and provide you to with the tools and skills you need to self-manage your concussion symptoms.


Brain Boost is a:

  • Community and group-based program Consisting of 10-15 stations delivered once a week.
  • Participants: 8-12 participants (Program design to be tailored for COVID-19)
  • Each session will last approximately 2 hours.
  • Clients will participate in several stations aimed at concussion symptom management with homework components provided afterwards.

Goal of the Program

Brain Injury & Concussion

Goal of the Program

Our goal is to give you the strategies and

tools you need to support your concussion recovery to self-manage symptoms including:


  • Planning and pacing
  • Visual/vestibular rehabilitation
  • Balance and core stability aerobic exercise
  • Nutrition
  • Mood management
  • Cognitive rehabilitation/neurocognitive exercises
  • Mindfulness/meditation

Kinesiology & Yoga Therapy

What is Kinesiology?

What is Kinesiology?

What is Kinesiology?

Kinesiologists work to treat and prevent injury and disease, and to improve movement and performance.


Kinesiologist can assist with:


  • Provide an individualized intervention plan consisting of a physical activity or exercise program
  • Educate clients on the importance of movement and thoughtful approach to physical activities
  • Work with client's to increase strength, range of motion and endurance
  • Assist client's with the development of an at-home exercise program

What is Yoga Therapy

What is Kinesiology?

What is Kinesiology?

Yoga therapy has proven beneficial at improving physical, cognitive and psychological functioning. Yoga

therapists can address musculoskeletal, psychological and chronic conditions.


Yoga therapy can assist with:


  • Increased physical flexibility
  • Improved focus and attention
  • Decreased muscle tension and stiffness
  • Enhanced sense of body awareness
  • Reduced anxiety and stress
  • Decreased sense of distress enhanced mood and motivation
  • Improved quality of life connected body & mind with function/movement
  • Increased control of the sympathetic nervous system (i.e. fight or flight responses)

Case Management

What is Case Management?

Case managers work with you, your family, your doctor, and other healthcare professionals to ensure your needs are met. They aim to help you determine what services best meet your needs and situation, how your family and community can assist your needs and review and make changes as your care needs change. They will work collaboratively with you, insurers, lawyers, healthcare practitioners, and others to obtain information, provide regular, timely updates, and create actions while maintaining confidentiality and privacy.

Hospital Discharge

Hospital Discharge Assessment

Hospital Discharge Assessment

Hospital Discharge Assessment

An  Occupational therapist will assess the needs of the individual before discharge from the hospital or care facility and perform an in-home assessment to recommend adaptive equipment, modifications and support care as needed. This assessment makes the transition from hospital to home safe and supported.

Hospital Discharge needs

Hospital Discharge Assessment

Hospital Discharge Assessment

Occupational therapists will meet the client and hospital team before discharge to coordinate a safe, smooth and comfortable transition from hospital to home. Discharge planning helps make sure that you leave the hospital safely and stress-free with the proper care designed to address your specific needs. Our Occupational therapists carry out comprehensive home safety assessments to facilitate a smooth transition from hospital to home. This can involve the prescription of adaptive equipment and home modifications to improve safety and independence. Recommendations can also include the provision of support services such as personal care assistance and referrals to other rehabilitation professionals.

Psychotherapy

Psychotherapy and Counselling

Our registered Psychotherapists offer essential mental health services during and after injury, illness or disability.


Our providers have training and certifications to provide psychotherapy to target complex mental health issues, including post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety, chronic pain, depression, substance use, and coping with grief, loss, or trauma. Utilizing cognitive behavioural therapy, behavioural activation, mindfulness, trauma-informed approaches, and other therapeutic modalities, our team can provide services to clients or their caregivers to manage and enhance physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being.

Mental Health

Post-Trauma Rehabilitation

Psychotherapy and Counselling

Psychotherapy and Counselling

Our trained specialists can help those living with mental illness develop everyday skills to manage their symptoms. These conditions can impact functioning at home, within the community, and at the workplace. 


Our Occupational therapists and counsellors are experienced in assisting clients who experience functional limitations arising from anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder, and depression using cognitive-behavioural and trauma-informed approaches. We also collaborate with others involved in your care, including psychologists, yoga instructors, Kinesiologists, counsellors, doctors, and other professionals.

Psychotherapy and Counselling

Psychotherapy and Counselling

Psychotherapy and Counselling

Our trained specialists offer essential mental health services during and after injury, illness or disability.


Our providers have training and certifications to provide psychotherapy to target complex mental health

issues, including post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety, chronic pain, depression, substance use, and coping with grief, loss, or trauma. Utilizing cognitive behavioural therapy, behavioural activation, mindfulness, trauma-informed approaches, and other therapeutic modalities, our team can provide services to clients or their caregivers to manage and enhance physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being.

Recreation and Aqua Therapy

Recreation Therapy

Recreation Therapy

Recreation Therapy

Recreation Therapy is a profession which provides service to people with physical, mental, social, behavioural or emotional limitations that can affect their attitude, ability and motivation to participate in leisure activities. Our Recreation therapists help to remove barriers that prevent clients form participating in meaningful leisure in a variety of settings such as hospitals, long-term care settings, day programs, community-based programs, and mental health centres.  Some examples of recreational therapies to look for in a treatment program include the following: Art & craft, music, games, exercise, dance,  and community outings.

Aqua Therapy

Recreation Therapy

Recreation Therapy

Our specially trained therapists perform treatments and facilitate exercises in water for relaxation, fitness, physical rehabilitation, and other therapeutic benefits. As aqua therapy is a gentle impact activity, it is ideal for those with less mobility, chronic pain, or recovering from injury.

Group Therapy

We offer group therapy sessions to address common areas for many individuals to support a selfmanagement-orientated style of education and recovery. 


Some of the group therapies we offer include chronic pain, depression, acquired brain injuries, concussion circuit, anxiety/relaxation, yoga therapy, fatigue management, lifestyle, and wellness coaching.   Learn More...

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