Occupational therapy: A short note

Occupational therapy (OT) is a branch of rehabilitation practices, general well being and health care that helps dysfunctional individual who have physical, sensory, or cognitive problems. Good occupational inputs result into a condition, in which an individual functions independently and becomes reasonably good in self-care.

A trained, certified and professionally sound occupational therapist designs and implements diagnosis based interventions to mitigate person's emotional, social, and physical problems and helps him or her daily life activities independently or apt use of assistive devices.

An occupational therapist is well versed with the skills required for everyday activities, modified exercises, ergonomics and other therapies. Thus, occupational therapy leads to adaptation and rehabilitation leading to perform essential tasks at school, work, or home.

An OT also designs intervention to change clients' movements so that they do work, take care of themselves and stay active at home, work, play and leisure activities.

They design and transact intervention enabling a dysfunctional person to be able to eat without help from others; perform independently the activities of daily life, take part in leisure or few outdoor activities; learn; do office work; wash clothes and place cleaning.

A certified, licensed therapist goes about his work in the following steps:

-Observes and records observations how does a client do an activity or task.
-Assesses the needs of clients
Designs and plans intervention to improve the way of doing a task to mitigates the difficulty or lessen the pain.
-Designs assistive devices, redesign furniture or physical environment at home or work place

An OT also shows you how to do daily chores better and in schools they also train children in sensory skills, coordination skills, fine motor movement and physical therapy.