CVMC's Health First Center Hosts Education Sessions on Occupational Therapy

In recognition of April as Occupational Therapy Month, Catawba Valley Medical Center (CVMC) occupational therapy professionals are offering education sessions on the methods they use to help ill or injured patients regain skill and flexibility to return to everyday activities. Joining CVMC’s staff members at the sessions will be occupational therapy students from Lenoir-Rhyne University.

The public is invited to attend any of the sessions scheduled in April at CVMC’s Health First Center in Valley Hills Mall. Session dates are Tuesdays, April 13 and April 20 and Thursdays, April 15 and April 22 from 1 to 5 p.m., and Saturday, April 17 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

“Occupational Therapists can help reduce their patient’s physical limitations by improving muscle strength, desensitizing painful areas and enhancing behavioral and cognitive skills,” said Ava Jarrett, CVMC administrator of rehabilitation services. “Through occupational therapy, patients improve self-care abilities and acquire skills to regain or maintain maximum function and ability to return to the activities of daily living.”

CVMC’s occupational therapy services include day-to-day skills enhancement, visual perception, stroke recovery, cognitive retraining and patient and family education. To learn more about CVMC’s Occupational Therapy services, contact Ms. Jarrett at 828/326-2137.

Catawba Valley Medical Center is a not-for-profit, public healthcare system in Hickory, providing and promoting the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual well-being of the public in addition to serving as a center for health education, wellness services, preventative medicine and acute care. CVMC, three times recognized by the American Nurses Credentialing Center as a Magnet facility, was recently named as a “Distinguished Hospital for An Outstanding InPatient Experience” by J.D. Power and Associates as well as a Hospital of Choice by the American Alliance of Healthcare Providers.

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