About Ergotherapie

Ergotherapie

Ergotherapie (ergotherapie.de — ergoXchange, "Der Ergotherapie-Onlinedienst") is the German online service for occupational therapy — the digital trade medium for ergotherapists, combining current news, an event calendar for continuing education, book tips with a shop, a product of the month, and user profiles for the registered community. With October 2026 news on the roots of occupational therapy before 1917, the meaningful use of assessments, and the month's product (the Gripmaster hand and finger trainer at 20% off), the portal is actively maintained — the online service where the ergotherapy profession informs itself, trains itself, and equips itself: the news for the knowledge, the calendar for the training, the shop for the tools.

Overview

ergoXchange — "Der Ergotherapie-Onlinedienst" — serves the occupational-therapy profession as the online trade medium: the news section ("Neuigkeiten: Aktuelles rund um die Ergotherapie") with the current articles (the October 2026 pieces on the pre-1917 roots, the assessments, the Gripmaster), the event calendar ("Veranstaltungskalender") with the continuing-education courses (from motivational interviewing to neurofeedback certification to hand-therapy geriatrics — the 2026/2027 dates reaching into 2028), the book tips ("Buch-Tipp") with the shop (the "Aktivieren mit Handgymnastik Band 3," the "Tisch ergo M2 68" product tip), the product of the month ("Produkt des Monats"), and the user profiles — accessible only to registered users, with free registration, the community's gated directory.

The news mix documents the profession's concerns: the history of occupational therapy (the 1917 founding of the American National Society for the Promotion of Occupational Therapy, the European work-therapy traditions, the medical/social/craft approaches merged into a profession), the clinical methodology (the assessments' meaningful use — which information is actually needed, what to do with the results), the health-policy economics (the 2027 therapy remuneration cap at 3.42%, the new ergotherapy prices at the employers' liability insurers and accident funds from September 2026), the evidence debates (VR therapy's scientific evidence, neurofeedback, loneliness as a health risk, the social connectedness factor), and the product news. The event calendar spans the country: from Bad Pyrmont to Vaterstetten, from Hamburg to Berlin, from Marburg to Wiesbaden, from Lüneburg to Hanau — the profession's continuing education mapped, the online and in-person courses side by side.

History

ergotherapie.de's history is the German occupational therapy's digitalization: the online service that grew with the profession — from the print journals (the Thieme ergopraxis — the specialist magazine for ergotherapy, 10–12 issues a year, 127 euros — the "Ergotherapie" journal — Thieme Stuttgart until 2010, Schulz-Kirchner Verlag Idstein since 2011 — the "praxis ergotherapie" from Verlag modernes Lernen, Dortmund) to the digital platform where the news, the courses, and the shop converge. The ergoXchange brand — the exchange (XChange) of the ergo community — positions the portal as the profession's meeting place: the registered users' profiles as the community's directory, the free registration as the open door.

The portal's shop — with the book tips from the Schulz-Kirchner Verlag (the "Demenz" and "ADS/ADHS" titles), the Verlag Modernes Lernen (the "Mit dem Zauberteppich unterwegs" and "Psychomotorik für Mädchen und Frauen" titles), the Springer-Verlag (the "K-Taping" title), and the Psychiatrie Verlag (the "Borderline begegnen" title) — connects the service to the specialist publishers: the ergotherapy literature's publishers supplying the portal's bookshop, the portal as the literature's marketplace, the book tips as the curated new-releases service.

Coverage and Content

The news section's coverage: the professional history (the roots before 1917 — the ideas that shaped the profession, the 1917 milestone), the clinical practice (the assessments, the hand therapy, the neurofeedback, the VR therapy, the finger roller for fine motor skills), the health policy (the remuneration, the prices, the blank prescription — "Blankoverordnung"), the ethics (the "dark side occupations" — when occupations become an ethical tension field), the transfers (the rehabilitation-to-home everyday transfer), and the products (the product of the month — the Gripmaster trainer with its individual finger training and resistance levels, the "In Balance XXL"). The event calendar: the workshops and certifications — motivational interviewing (the info evenings and the two-day courses), methodical action with mentally ill people (the PsychErgo concept — the multi-day courses in Berlin, Marburg, and online), neurofeedback therapist certification (the QEEG clinical interpretation in Vaterstetten), geriatric hand-therapy assessment (Bad Pyrmont), practice founding seminars (the four-stage online course for therapy providers), staff retention ("Mitarbeitende finden, die bleiben"), teletherapy, video therapy, self-billing, the Korsakow three-part series, the anxiety and OCD courses, the left-hander consulting certification through April 2028 — the profession's continuing education in one calendar, the 2026 dates reaching into 2027 and 2028.

The book tips: the current new releases for ergotherapy — five book tips for the therapeutic everyday, the publishers' new titles (the Schulz-Kirchner, Modernes Lernen, Springer, and Psychiatrie Verlag books) — the shop as the literature service, the curated reading for the practice. The product of the month: the therapy products with the monthly discount (the October 2026 Gripmaster at 20% off, September's "In Balance XXL") — the equipment service, the products the therapists actually use.

Organization and Ownership

The operator of ergotherapie.de is not publicly confirmed from the sources consulted — the portal's bookshop sources its titles from the specialist publishers (Schulz-Kirchner Verlag, Verlag Modernes Lernen, Springer-Verlag, Psychiatrie Verlag), suggesting the publishing connection, but the imprint could not be verified in this research. The portal's community model — the free registration, the user profiles accessible only to registered users — builds the profession's online community: the therapists' directory behind the login, the exchange (XChange) as the registered members' space.

The economics are the portal model: the shop (the books and the therapy products — the book tips converting to sales, the product of the month with its monthly discount), the product-of-the-month promotions, the event-calendar listings (the course providers — the academies and institutes — reaching the profession's training demand), and the advertising (the webinar sponsors — the VR therapy and neurofeedback webinars marked as advertisements) — the profession's marketplace funding the free news and the free registration, the commerce serving the community.

Digital Presence

ergotherapie.de is itself the digital presence — the portal as the product: the news (the October 2026 articles with their thumbnail images), the event calendar (the 2026–2028 course dates), the bookshop (the book tips with the cover images), the product of the month (the product images), and the user profiles (the gated community). The October 2026 news dates document the active maintenance: the portal as the profession's current medium, updated with the month's articles, courses, and products — the ergotherapy profession's daily companion.

For the occupational therapists — the ergotherapists in the practices, clinics, and training institutions, the registered ergoXchange community — ergotherapie.de's ergoXchange provides the online service: the news, the continuing education, the literature, and the products — the digital trade medium of the German ergotherapy profession, the community's exchange, where the profession informs itself, trains itself, and equips itself — the news for the knowledge, the calendar for the training, the shop for the tools, the profiles for the community — the ergoXchange online service for the German occupational-therapy profession, actively maintained with the month's news, courses, and products — the digital trade medium where the ergotherapists meet, learn, and equip themselves — the online service of the German ergotherapy profession — ergoXchange, der Ergotherapie-Onlinedienst — the news, the courses, the books, and the products for the ergotherapy profession — the community's exchange, free to join — where the German ergotherapists inform themselves every day — the online service for the occupational-therapy profession — ergoXchange at ergotherapie.de — the Ergotherapie-Onlinedienst, always current and always free to join.