Occupational Therapy
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Occupational Therapy
The fundamental ambition of occupational therapy is to empower the people to get involved in everyday’s activities. Occupational therapists achieve these conclusions by working closely with the society to improve their abilities by engaging themselves in the professions they want to, need to, or are expected to do, or by altering the occupation or the environment to acquire better support in occupational engagement.
OT experts believe that psychological, social, and environmental factors are affecting the functioning in multiple ways. This approach makes OT a crucial fraction of healthcare for adults as well as kids.
Kids with these medical problems might benefit from OT:
- Birth injuries or birth defects
- Sensory processing disorders
- Traumatic injuries (brain or spinal cord)
- Learning problems
- Autism/pervasive developmental disorders
- Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis
- Mental health or behavioral problems
- Broken bones or other orthopedic injuries
- Developmental delays
- Post-surgical conditions
- Burns
- Spina bifida
- Traumatic amputations
- Cancer
- Severe hand injuries
- Multiple sclerosis, cerebral palsy, and other chronic illness
Occupational therapists might:
- Help kids work on fine motor skills so they can grasp and release toys and develop good handwriting skills.
- Address hand-eye coordination to improve kids’ play and school skills (hitting a target, batting a ball, copying from a blackboard, etc.).
- Help kids with severe developmental delays learn basic tasks (such as bathing, getting dressed, brushing their teeth, and feeding themselves).
- Help kids with behavioral disorders maintain positive behaviors in all environments (e.g., instead of hitting others or acting out, using positive ways to deal with anger, such as writing about feelings or participating in a physical activity).
- Teach kids with physical disabilities the coordination skills needed to feed themselves, use a computer, or increase the speed and legibility of their handwriting.
- Evaluate a child’s need for specialized equipment, such as wheelchairs, splints, bathing equipment, dressing devices, or communication aids.
- Work with kids who have sensory and attention issues to improve focus and social skills.
Occupational therapy for adult and Geriatric Population:
Occupational therapy can help adults achieve maximal independence in self-care, home management and community activities through motor, cognitive and sensory re-education.
Services for adults and older patients may include:
- Improving motor function and control, sensory processing and functional cognition
- Promoting independence in daily living skills
- Designing and fabricating custom orthotics
- Training in the use of adaptive equipment and technique
Some conditions that can be helped by an occupational therapist:
- Stroke
- Brain injury
- Spinal cord injury
- Multiple sclerosis
- Parkinson’s disease
- Cerebral palsy
- Arthritis
- Orthopedic injury
- Low vision
- Alzehmers disease
- Hand injury
- Nerve injury
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