What Occupational Therapists Do?
Through therapeutic daily activity use Occupational therapist’s work and treat patients that are disabled, ill or injured.
By helping these patients to improve, recover, develop and maintain daily working and living skills.
Duties:
Review history and observe patient doing daily tasks.
Evaluate the needs and condition of the patient.
By making patients work to certain goals identified by the types of tasks performed in a treatment plan.
Teaches patients to get back into the normal routine by teaching them daily activities.
Help relieve chronic ailments by teaching the patient exercises that help.
Evaluating a patients needs not only to recuperate but to function normally at work or home.
To accommodate and care for patients at home family members are also educated on the needs.
Instructs patient on how to use and identify special equipment needed in the rehabilitation or care process.
Records and reports to all other physicians and departments for further evaluation, care, and billing.
By teaching patients and their families how to handle or and use aids for permanently disabled patients, so that they can adapt to normal daily activities with more ease and flexibility and work to more independence for a patient to live or work on their own.
Some Occupational Therapists assist children with learning disabilities by actually helping in their classrooms when needed and some start as early as toddler age in case there are foreseeable disabilities that might have been picked up during pregnancy or maybe heretic but has not shown up yet.
They also assist in children with slow development illnesses or alcohol syndrome to cope with normal daily living and to fit in with normal children.
Sometimes including the normal children in their daily activities.
This not only helps them fit in and makes recovery or living easier but allows for the normal kids to accept them easier and thus also improving healing or living daily lives.
And then there are those Occupational Therapists that work with the elderly.
They teach these patients how to handle living and coping with living on their own if they have any dilapidating illnesses or injuries.
Also how to cope with the environment which might be “hostile” whether it’s the living area or the actual family or people around them.
Here the Occupational Therapists include the family and or people to educate them on what the patient’s needs may be or what they are at all times.
So as you can see Occupational Therapists have a unique and very important job across many fields and are considered by some as specialists in their field.
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