What is Occupational Therapy?
The role of the occupational therapist as a direct service practitioner is to provide a program designed to develop, restore, and promote performance abilities and tasks necessary for independent and satisfying daily living.
The ultimate goal of occupational therapy treatment is to increase a person’s ability to function independently in daily life tasks (such as self-care, home management, work, and leisure).
Who Can Benefit from Occupational Therapy?
Occupational Therapy services may be appropriate for those patients with sensory, motor, cognitive, perceptual, developmental, and functional deficits. The following are some of the diagnoses, which may be appropriate for an Occupational Therapy referral:
- Developmental Delay
- Congenital Deficits
- Cerebral Vascular Accident
- Traumatic Brain Injury
- Multiple Fracture
- Neuropathies
- Hip Fractures
- Total Joint Replacement
- Respiratory Disease
- Arthritis Amputation
- Visual Disorders
- Adult Neurological Disease
- Post Mastectomy
- Hand Injury
Occupational Therapy Intervention
Occupational Therapy intervention involves:
- Evaluation
- Interpretation of Evaluation Data
- Treatment Planning
- Treatment Implementation
- Reassessment
- Discharge Planning