ergoterapia ergomania (Vira (Gambarogno))

The Ergomania ergotherapy center has been active since 2016 in Cugnasco and 'from 2019 also at the alztra location in Vira Gambarogno . Myself, Judith and my co-workers with extensive work experience decided to undertake training as occupational therapists with passion and determination. We build on our experiences and skills to offer the best possible service to our patients.

Through creativity, experience and imagination we diversify treatments with the aim of optimizing therapy through, above all, careful listening to the needs of the patient and his or her family. The main goal is to help people regain the ability to act in daily and working life to re-achieve maximum autonomy.

General Information

Therapies can be carried out in Italian, German and English.

We also collaborate with the Fisiocentro studio in Muralto, which is based in Vira-Gambarogno, and in that area, we also perform therapies at home.

Therapies are applied to both children and adults on prescription and can be performed either in the office or at the patient's home.

Occupational therapy prescriptions are reimbursed by basic health insurance, accident insurance, and social insurance (DI).

Hand rehabilitation, orthopedics and rheumatology

The Ergomania occupational therapy practice offers therapies designed to rehabilitate and re-educate limbs that have suffered trauma:

• Active and/or passive mobilizations of joints and tendons
• Manual therapy
• Myofascial and connective tissue treatment
• Massage and treatment of muscle contractures
• Dry-needling
• Fine motor and coordination training
• Muscle strengthening
• Pain treatment
• Sensitivity training
• Wound dressing
• Kinesiotaping
• Edema treatment
• Treatment of scars
• Packaging of static orthoses for fingers, hands, and forearm
• Functional recovery of the upper extremity
• Electrotherapy (ultrasound, tens, etc.)
• Thermotherapy (kerosene, hot sand, etc.)
• Cryotherapy (cold packs, lentils, etc.)
• Integration of the injured body part into concrete activities
• Training in the use of prostheses
• Counseling and adaptation of aids for personal hygiene, home economics, or work
• Analysis of ergonomics in the home and/or workplace
• Instruction in joint protection

Neurology

Therapies aimed at regaining and normalizing neurophysiological functions are carried out in the Ergomania ergotherapy studio:

• Rehabilitate injured functions
• Achieve maximum independence in activities of daily living
• Maintain the capacity for action
• Train cognitive abilities
• Learn strategies to compensate for lost functions
• Normalize hypo or hypersensitivity
• Improve joint stiffness and spasticity
• Regain, maintain and improve upper limb mobility and body schema
• Balance training
• Improve gross and fine motor skills
• Normalizing muscle tone
• Tailoring auxiliary aids and positioning orthoses
• Training of actions of daily living
• Finding and choosing the correct compensatory strategies for maximum possible independence despite impaired function
• Educating and counseling patients and family members to any social, financial, and technical supports available to them

Pediatrics

At Ergomania we deal with issues related to the delicate age of childhood:

• Identifying the child's difficulties in performing daily activities (daycare, school, leisure, etc.).
• Improving self-esteem and mental stability
• Supporting cognitive activities (concentration, spatial orientation, time management, etc.)
• Train and enable skills that the child needs to be able to perform relative to his or her age (such as dressing, eating, riding a bicycle, writing, playing, etc.)
• Enable the child to perceive and process sensory information (touch, body perception and balance)
• Promote global motor activities (balance, coordination, etc.)
• Exercise and support strategies for focusing attention, planning and monitoring one's action
• Promote and stimulate social and emotional skills
• Exercise visual, auditory, and mnemonic (memory) skills as necessary functions of the ability to act
• Improve and train fine motor skills, bimanual coordination, and force metering
• Graphomotor training (writing, reading, drawing, etc.)
• Support and therapy targeting difficulties related to dyslexia and dyscalculia
• Assessment, support and therapy to lateralization (left-handed)

Geriatrics

Third-age-related difficulties are treated at Ergomania:

• Maintaining autonomy in home life
• Increasing socialization and maintaining hobbies
• Identifying home hazards and helping to perform environmental modifications
• Improving and maintaining motor functions
• Activating cognitive functions (memory, spatial orientation, attention..)
• Advise and instruct the patient and family members in the management, care and use of assistive devices
• Improve and/or maintain independence (self-care, feeding, dressing...)
• Preventing falls

Psychiatry

The Ergomania practice offers assistance and solutions to better cope with everyday life:

• Improving autonomy in daily life and the organization of everyday life
• Achieve awareness, resources and personal abilities, as well as, knowledge and acceptance of one's limitations in order to enhance the self realistically
• Achieve better social and adaptive skills
• Develop strategies to better handle moments of crisis
• Job placement
• Increase cognitive, perceptual and sense-motor skills
• Psycho-affective and interpersonal functions
• Action skills
• Self-care
• Structure of the day