In this section...

  1. Acute Physiotherapy
  2. Cheshire and Merseyside Rehabilitation Network (CMRN)
  3. Chiari malformation and syringomyella
  4. Cognitive neurology
  5. Complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS)
  6. Dietetic Services
  7. Electroencephalogram (EEG)
  8. Endoscopic (keyhole) spinal surgery
  9. Epilepsy
  10. Epilepsy specialist nurse service
  11. Epilepsy surgery
  12. Essential tremor - Ultrasound thalamotomy
  13. Evoked potentials (EP)
  14. Facial pain
  15. Fluroscopy
  16. Functional Neurological Disorders Service (FNDS)
  17. Headache service
  18. Hydrocephalus, CSF disorders and spina bifida
  19. Infection prevention and control
  20. Integrated Neurology Nurse Service
  21. Interventional Radiology
  22. Major Trauma service
  23. Motor neurone disease
  24. Multiple sclerosis
  25. Multiple sclerosis (MS) nurse service
  26. Nerve conduction studies (NCS) and Electromyography (EMG)
  27. Neuroanaesthesia and Critical Care
  28. Neurogenetic disorders
  29. Neurological long-term conditions OT service
  30. Neurological Long Term Conditions Physiotherapy Team (LTC)
  31. Neurology
  32. Neuromodulation for Pain and Pelvic Floor Instability
  33. Neuromuscular disorders
  34. Neuromyelitis optica
  35. Neuro-Oncology Department
  36. Neuropathic pain (nerve pain)
  37. Neurophysiology Department
  38. Neuropsychiatry
  39. Neuropsychology Department
  40. Neuropsychology inpatient service
  41. Neuroradiology
  42. Neuroscience Laboratories
  43. Neurosurgery
  44. Neurovascular surgery and intervention
  45. Pain Management Programme
  46. Pain medicine
  47. Palliative care pain
  48. Parkinson's disease Nurse Specialists
  49. Pre-operative Assessment Team
  50. Physiotherapy botulinum toxin service
  51. Rehabilitation
  52. Research
  53. Respiratory Physiotherapy Team
  54. Speech and Language Therapy
  55. Spinal surgery
  56. Surgical management of chronic pain
  57. Surgical, Medical, Acute Response Team (SMART)
  58. Theatres
  59. Therapies Department
  60. Tissue viability
  61. Trauma Therapy Team

Neurological long-term conditions occupational therapy service

 

The long-term conditions occupational therapy (OT) service offers highly specialised evidence-based intervention via outpatient appointments. Occupational Therapists work in a variety of settings to provide practical support to enable patients to maintain optimum independence and overcome any barriers that may prevent participation in activities (occupations). This might involve essential self-care tasks, work, or leisure occupations.

We will consider a variety of physical, psychological, social and environmental factors in order to work with you to focus on an intervention plan best meets a patient’s needs. We will work with patients to develop skills, knowledge and confidence to do this. The goal is to empower patients to manage their long-term condition.  

 

Conditions 

The team provide intervention for patients with the following conditions:

  • Multiple sclerosis (MS)
  • Motor neurone disease (MND)
  • Neuromyelitis optica (NMO)
  • Neuromuscular disease (NMD)
     

Specialist advice

We provide symptom specific advice and education, for example with fatigue, stress, cognition, employment and changes in hand function. We work within multi-professional clinics, and offer individual occupational therapy, fatigue and employment clinic appointments. We also run a standardised fatigue management programme (FACETS) specifically for MS-related fatigue. The Walton Centre is one of the only Trusts in the UK to have access to a specialist OT for patients with neuromuscular conditions.

Following the start of the pandemic we adapted our OT service to offer virtual appointments, as well as face-to-face appointments where necessary. Facilitating the FACETS programme online has allowed us to continue to offer this intervention for patients and has made it more accessible geographically. We are also continuing to develop the employment service to further support patient needs.

There is a commitment from all therapists to service development and evaluation, audit and research, with involvement in local and national initiatives to improve the symptom management and function of people living with these conditions.

 

Referral information

Patients can contact the LTC Occupational Therapy Team directly on the numbers listed in the above contact information section.

 

Contact information

  • 0151 556 3742
  • 0151 556 3741

Messages can be left via answerphone

 

 

Patient leaflets

Neurological long-term conditions – Neuromuscular Team

Neurological long-term for professionals