| The job of an occupational therapy is to indulge with | | | | improve decision-making, problem solving, abstract |
| families, groups, individuals, communities, organization to | | | | reasoning, perceptual skills, memory, sequencing and |
| facilitate health and well being through engagement in | | | | co-ordination. All theses methods help a patient to start |
| occupation. A therapist helps individuals get involved in | | | | a new independent life again. Those who are found to |
| social, political and environmental factors that contribute | | | | be with short-term memory loss recover their natural |
| occupational deprivation. There have been found many | | | | status faster compared to permanent memory loss |
| evidence of therapy jobs as occupation since ancient | | | | patients. |
| times. Professionally a Greek physician was the first | | | | Such patients who are found with permanent |
| person to start the treatment of human patients with | | | | disabilities such as cerebral palsy, muscular dystrophy, |
| mental illness via the use of therapeutic baths, | | | | spinal cord injuries often need special instructions and |
| massage, music and exercise. The concept of | | | | guide to do their daily task. This special care is due to |
| treatment is found to be same even today. They help | | | | certain tough disabilities, which creates a problem for |
| those individuals who are victim of social and mental | | | | the patients to understand things around him. It |
| disability. Patients are treated to allowed to recover | | | | becomes impossible to get meaning of such things in |
| their natural condition. Special kind of treatment is | | | | life. And this is why occupational therapist takes special |
| supposed to implement that help patients develop, | | | | care of such patients. For this special look after the |
| recover or maintain daily living and work skills. | | | | therapist demonstrate the use of adaptive equipments |
| Occupational therapist not only helps patients to | | | | like wheel chair, eating aids, orthoses, eating aids. As |
| improve their basic motor function and reasoning | | | | per requirement the therapist also build or design such |
| abilities but also to compensate for permanent loss of | | | | equipments, which are important to patients like |
| function. This way the clients get a productive, | | | | computer added adaptive equipment or some |
| independent and good life. Right from taking personal | | | | equipment required at home. Only providing equipment |
| care to working on a computer is helped by | | | | is not the end of job but the most important thing is to |
| occupational therapist, which makes patients | | | | teach the patients how to use the equipments. Proper |
| independent in his life. The improvement process is | | | | uses of equipments help patients to improve |
| slow but it requires patience from therapist as well as | | | | communication and understand situations in the |
| client. A patient condition is just like a child who is | | | | environment. Some occupational therapist also works |
| taught each activity of life to do properly. The patient is | | | | individually with a patient if the situation requires. It can |
| treated to take bath, behave socially, talk gently, learn | | | | be either a group of patient or a single patient to take |
| on computer, socially active, cooking, eating, bathing, | | | | care of; the therapist is a successful practitioner who |
| dressing etc. In many scenarios it is found that | | | | helps patients to get a new meaningful and |
| occupational therapist use computer programs that are | | | | independent life again. |
| prepared to help patients in recovery. These programs | | | | |