Lifestyle Redesign
Occupational Therapy Programs Informed by Lifestyle Redesign®
The Occupational Therapy Department offers a variety of services to help clients with physical disabilities attain their potential through embedding healthy habits in their daily routine. Therapy sessions are focused on analyzing daily activities, providing education and tools for healthy habits and behavior change, and discussing the challenges or barriers encountered when embedding new habits in a typical day.
Topics such as eating healthy, exercising safely, balancing daily activities, managing stress, managing pain, and participating in activities that are personally meaningful are discussed in detail. To infuse healthy habits, participants are provided with opportunities to practice daily activities like cooking, grocery shopping, and exercising. Each participant sets their own personal and achievable goals in order to maximize their engagement and participation in daily life and help them get back to the activities they find meaningful.
Therapy Includes:
- Analyzing routines, habits and daily activities
- Creating individualized goals to add healthy habits and joyful activities into daily life
- Promoting healthy behaviors and feeling of well-being
- Practicing new habits and problem-solving any challenges or barriers that arise
- Participating in group or individual sessions
Individual and Group Therapy for Persons with:
- STROKE
- Identifying activities, routines, and habits that contribute to successful management of stroke and stroke prevention
- Facilitating participation in personally meaningful physical activities
- Providing tools and education for topics such as medication management and stress management
- CHRONIC PAIN
- Reducing pain through techniques such as breathing, stress reduction and relaxation techniques
- Providing education on the pain cycle to afford better control over pain
- Practicing energy conservation and pacing techniques to promote engagement in daily activities
- Facilitating participation in personally meaningful activities
- DIABETES
- Exploring meal planning and preparation to identify healthier food choices
- Facilitating participation in personally meaningful physical activities
- Providing education on diabetes and diabetes self-management
- Restructuring lifestyle to afford better control over blood glucose levels and avoid further complications
- SPINAL CORD INJURY
- Identifying activities, routines, and habits that contribute to successful management of spinal cord injury to live long and healthy
- Providing education on topics such as preventing pressure sores, bone loss and diabetes
- Providing tools and education for managing weight
- Facilitating participation in personally meaningful physical activities
- ARTHRITIS
- Providing tools and education for management of pain and fatigue
- Facilitating safe participation in personally meaningful physical activities
- Learning to protect joints, conserve energy and simplify tasks
- Education about community resources and splints/ devices that may be helpful
- EPILEPSY
- Identifying activities, routines, and habits that contribute to successful management of epilepsy to live long and healthy
- Providing tools and education for living safely and independently
- Creating balance in daily life
- Exploring productive activities
- CARDIAC REHAB
- Incorporating pacing, relaxation, and work simplification for safe engagement in daily life
- Increasing endurance and capacity for participation in safe and healthy daily activities
- Exploring meal planning and preparation to identify healthier food choices
- Education on topics such as recognizing and reducing symptoms of cardiac distress
- WEIGHT MANAGEMENT
- Identifying activities, routines, and habits that contribute to weight management
- Exploring meal planning and preparation to identify healthier food choices
- Facilitating participation in personally meaningful physical activities
- Providing education on topics such breathing, stress reduction techniques, and sleep hygiene
How to Participate:
A referral from your doctor for “Occupational Therapy Lifestyle Redesign” is required
For referrals from the community please call the Outpatient Referral Business Office at (562) 385-6536.
Contact Us:
Occupational Therapy Outpatient Services
(562) 385-6847
lifestyle@rancho.org
