Neuro Occupational Therapy 

Neuro occupational therapy at Concussion Care Centre is focused on helping individuals post-concussion return to meaningful daily life roles and activities.  Our goal is to empower our clients to manage their post-concussion symptoms and to promote self-directed recovery. We use an evidence-informed approach to tailor treatment to each client’s unique goals and needs while providing specialized cognitive rehabilitation and lifestyle management post-concussion rehabilitation services. Additionally, we work collaboratively with family/significant others, the client’s healthcare team, and worker’s compensation case managers when providing comprehensive care for our clients. Physicians and others may independently refer patients to Dr. Sheard for specialized post-concussion occupational therapy services.

Cognition

We provided assessment and treatment for post-trauma cognitive impairments, including those related to executive functioning, memory, and visual perception. Cognitive rehabilitation therapies include:

• Mindfulness-based cognitive interventions
• In-office cognitive remediation
  • Memory
  • Dual tasking
  • Progressive cognitive loading
  • Multi-sensory integration
• Supplemental home-based cognitive programming
• Training in compensatory strategies

Lifestyle Management

Services also include lifestyle management for other post-traumatic symptoms including:

• Sleep
• Anxiety and stress management
• Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS)
• Chronic pain and Complex Regional Pain Syndrome
  • Pain Neuroscience Education
  • Workplace and home ergonomics

Lifestyle Management is a treatment approached pioneered at the University of Southern California. It is based on the understanding that lifestyle choices are powerful for promoting health and wellness. Using a Lifestyle Management approach, Dr. Sheard empowers individuals to identify barriers to healthy lifestyles and she then guides them to develop and implement personalized solutions to those barriers. To learn more about Lifestyle Management in brain injury survivors, you can listen to Dr. Sheard’s presentation for the Brain Injury Association of Virginia.