IIME supports Australians across the country, through access to allied health and therapy services. Our highly regarded team of Occupational Therapists are experienced in completing in-depth assessments and preparing detailed medico-legal reports outlining future care requirements and costs.
Our Occupational Therapy services are carried out by independent Occupational Therapy practitioners you can trust. Services can be delivered via telehealth or home visits to provide opinions for pain, injuries and illnesses.
The following services, including assessments and reports, are carried out by experts that are qualified to offer independent opinions.
Our Occupational Therapy (OT) Services
Our Occupational Therapists provide thorough assessments on day to day functions, injuries and illness. With a highly experienced team, have an understanding of limitations, working through general and program goals and providing recommendations for future care and costs.
Evaluating and Enhancing Everyday Function with OT
OT is an effective healthcare measure that is taken to assist people with completing everyday tasks after suffering an injury or illness. With focuses on physical, sensory and cognitive function, our OT consultants are trained to assess:
- Overall function (self-feeding, bathing and dressing).
- Social participation and communication.
- Range of motion.
- Physiological and emotional function.
- Vocational capacity.
- Leisure and social capacity (including community integration)
- Transport access.
- Activities of daily living (ADL assessments)
- Personal hygiene.
- Instrumental activities.
- Mobility (transfers, e.g. sit-to-stand and access).
- Driving and car modifications.
Medico-Legal Reports for Occupational Therapy
All of our independent assessments are conducted by occupational therapists who are decisive, experienced in court procedure and will provide you with expert opinions, as well as medico-legal reports for:
- Neurological conditions (acquired brain injury).
- Oncology and palliative care.
Claimants with vision impairment. - Orthopaedic and musculoskeletal conditions (multi-trauma, amputees).
- Paediatric conditions (cerebral palsy).
- Cardiological conditions (cardiomyopathy, Marfan syndrome and more).
Causation and Impairment Reports
Our OT team works to provide causation and impairment reports on a person’s:
- Prognosis
- Diagnosis
- Functional cognitive assessments.
- Future function and impairment limitations.
- Future care costs:
- Present and future care needs for OT services and personal care attendant requirements.
- Recommendations on future care with other allied health services (such as physiotherapy and podiatry).
- Equipment and personal care aids.
- Accommodation appropriateness.
- Housing plan requirements.
- Access to recreation and training plans.
- Wheelchair and mobility aids.
- Mattress and bed appropriateness.
- Seating aids.
- Access to and ability to use vision modification aids.
- Car modifications.
- Functional capacity to participate in instrumental and personal activities of daily living (such as working, self-cleaning, bathing and household duties).
