Riverwood Healthcare offers a variety of occupational therapy services to meet patients’ needs.
Occupational therapy helps those whose lives have been disrupted by injury, disease, the aging process, or developmental problems. The fundamental goal of therapy is to use purposeful activities or interventions that will help restore independent and meaningful lives.
Occupational therapy services are available in Aitkin. For an appointment, call Riverwood’s Therapy Services department at 218-927-5580.
Our occupational therapists at Riverwood specialize in:
- Hand Therapy
Fabrication of custom elbow, wrist or hand splints, both dynamic and static - Lymphedema Therapy
Manual lymph drainage, bandaging, exercise and compression garments - Cognitive Performance Evaluations
Interpretation of results to the patient/family - Fatigue Management
For a diagnosis like cancer, multiple sclerosis or stroke - Work Injury Management Programs
Including functional capacity evaluations, work/job analysis evaluations, ergonomics and pre-employment work screens
Pediatric care
Pediatric occupational therapy helps children succeed in their everyday activities, from self-care and motor skills to social skills, sensory processing, self-regulation and feeding issues.
We can evaluate and treat coordination, upper body motor skills, sensory processing, vision/perception, self-feeding, feeding dysfunction, school readiness and more. Treatment is focused on fine motor development, posture, strength, range of motion and coordination.
Feeding evaluations can increase infant feeding progression, increase child food intake with oral motor strengthening, positioning, and adaptive equipment.
We work with children to manage daily life activities, increase strength and improve muscle development. We can also help children develop skills to become more independent and safely meet goals and interact socially and cope with sensory stimulation within their environment.
