Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation
Specialist Occupational therapy services for people with a spinal cord injury, other neurological injury or catastrophic injury.
Services
Alanna Finnan has gained extensive experience in spinal cord injury rehabilitation during her 12 years at Royal North Shore Hospital Spinal Injury Unit and Royal Rehab Spinal Injury Unit. She now provides these rehabilitation services to people in the community.
Advanced Wheelchair skills training
Advanced wheelchair skills training to learn how to “pop a wheelie” and how to travel up and down gutters and ramps/hills using a wheelstand technique.
Hand Splints
Fabrication of hand splints to increase hand function and improve joint position following tetraplegia. For example: resting hand splints, boxing splints, typing splints, hand writing splints, thumb spica splints and anti-claw splints.
Home Modifications
Assessment and recommendations for home modifications such as ramps, bathroom modifications and kitchen re-design to allow access to your home and meet your specific functional needs.
Equipment Prescription
Assessment and recommendations for specialised equipment such as commodes, hoists, pressure relieving mattresses, electric beds, manual wheelchairs, power wheelchairs and pressure relieving cushions.
Public Transport training
Outdoor wheelchair mobility training for bus and train travel and for navigating steep curbs, road crossings and cambers in a manual or power wheelchair.
Functional retraining
Transfer re-training (bed, commode, car, lounge).
Bed mobility, dressing or self care re-training.
Adaptive techniques to enable independence in daily activities such as feeding, grooming, cooking, gardening, leisure activities and more.
Location
Finnan OT provides in-home services to metropolitan Sydney and the Central Coast.
Referral
To make a referral, please fill out the below referral form and email it to [email protected]. Or call Alanna on 0427 158 059
Funding
Finnan OT provides services to:
icare funded clients
Insurance funded clients
Private paying clients
Self-managed NDIS clients
Plan-managed NDIS clients
Agency-managed NDIS clients