Occupational Therapists help individuals improve skills or learn alternative ways to perform everyday activities, like dressing and feeding. The OT creates a personalized care plan to meet patients' goals.
Speech and Language Therapy improves individuals' breathing, speaking, swallowing functioning and strengthens their ability to understand and use words. They can help individuals suffering from:
A stroke
A heart attack
Difficulty swallowing
Difficulty speaking
Respiratory Therapy can help individuals suffering from acute respiratory distress syndrome, asthma, bronchitis, COPD, cystic fibrosis, emphysema, spinal muscular distrophy, Parkinson's disease, Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Lou Gherig's disease.) RTs can:
Diagnose lung and breathing disorders
Manage ventilators and artificial airway devices for patients who can't breathe on their own
Educate patients and families on lung disease
Recommend treatment methods
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