Occupational therapy can help with many different things and the artist is in OT as a treatment for her FND and Sensory issues. It's super-helpful for helping with sensory adaptions and helping with ideas for trying to regulate it. It also helps with figuring out how to do everyday tasks like grabbing things, buttons, and picking things up fine motor things. The Occupational Therapists and Students the artist has worked with have been super helpful and made suggestions not all have made immediate benefits but hopefully, long-term will be beneficial with continued home programs as well. Between OT and PT, A lot of progress has been made on the functionality of the artist's left hand she used to have minimal to no functionality in that hand now she can use 3 fingers and her thumb and bend her wrist along lift her arm, 3 years ago that wasn't possible which is really exciting! Her therapists are really chill with Tic and Vic and Bleep too and they all laugh a lot when they make a mess or something too cus they do occasionally like to throw something or say something (she laughs as well with them). As long as you have a good therapist and know what goals you want to achieve you should be good to go. It's always a good idea before you go to come up with some goals to work towards before your first appointment, then adjust when you meet your therapist for what you can achieve with them. So, for example, things you can set goals for like tieing shoes, making dinner, going for long car rides, and getting dressed, once you get there they should be able to help you organize which to work on first and which exercises will help with that. They may give you some stuff to do at home that will help keep things going and help make progress.
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