What is Occupational Therapy?
Occupational therapy helps people to gain independence in activities of daily living to improve their health and well-being.
Our occupational therapists help children to regain skills or learn new ones to allow them to carry out everyday tasks following an illness, injury or long term condition.
Occupational therapists can assess things such as:
- Self-care
- Play/leisure
- Upper limb function
- Positioning and seating
- Child development
- Cognition
- Pain management
- Home/school environment
- Splinting needs
What services do we provide?
We provide both inpatient and outpatient services on the wards and in the Therapy and Dietetics department.
We cover the following areas:
- Orthopaedics
- Rheumatology
- Chronic pain
- Metabolic Bone disease
- Burns and plastics
- Hands and upper limbs
- Neurology
- Neurosurgery
- Oncology
- Critical Care
Contact
Occupational Therapy is based within the Therapy and Dietetics department on the ground floor of the Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital. The Therapy and Dietetics department is open Mon-Fi 08:30-16:30. We run a limited weekend service covering major trauma and orthopaedics.
Therapy and Dietetics
Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital
Oxford Road
Manchester
M13 9WL
0161 701 2640