Why see an Occupational Therapist?

Occupational Therapy helps you live a life that matters.

Celebrating Occupational Therapy (OT) Week Sun 21st – Sat 27th October, 2018

What is occupational therapy?

Occupational Therapists work with people across the lifespan in all domains of health, illness or injury. An occupational therapists primary focus is to help people live their lives in a sustainable and meaningful way.

Occupational therapists work with people and communities to enhance their ability to engage in the occupations they want to, need to or are expected to do or by modifying the occupation or the environment to better support their occupational engagement.” OT Australia Association

Everything we do in life is in occupation, whether getting dressed in the morning, driving to work, cooking dinner or going for a sunset swim. If illness, pain, injury or disability stops you from doing these things; it can impact quality of life and ability to reach your fullest potential.

Occupational Therapy is where science, creativity and compassion collide.

What do Next Wave Occupational Therapists treat?

At Next Wave Therapy in Fremantle our occupational therapists are highly qualified and experienced in treating soft tissue injury, persistent pain, sleep disturbance, fatigue, stress and mental health concerns.

Specific types of treatment we offer are myo-fascial trigger point release, focused psychological therapies, pain care strategies, stress management, yoga, acupressure and acceptance and commitment therapy.

Next Wave occupational therapists integrate emerging areas of evidenced based practice such as yoga, acupressure and mindfulness within an occupational therapy model.