Occupational Therapist Job Description
If we look at the overall occupational therapists job description, their basic function is to assist
patients in making themselves self-reliant.
As the name suggests the therapist helps the
patients to regain or...
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Occupational Therapist Job Description
If we look at the overall occupational therapists job description, their basic function is to assist
patients in making themselves self-reliant.
As the name suggests the therapist helps the
patients to regain or develop the ability to do day-to-day occupations and skills the patient was
used to before or develop a skill which the patient was never able to do.
The patient may be
suffering from disabilities at the physical or mental level due to depression, stress or trauma, or
can also be due to improper development of the body or brain usually as a result of birth
defects.
The duty of the therapist is help the patient regain or develop day-to-day skills which
have been lost, so that they need not depend on anybody and can carry on with dignity.
The
main focus will be on improving social and motor skills of the patients.
The occupational therapists profession starts with charting out a plan for the rehabilitation of
the patient according to th
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