What is Occupational Therapy and Why Should I Care?

“Why should I care?” you might ask. Well this job affects almost everyone in one way or another. An occupational therapist helps patients improve their ability to perform tasks in living and working environments. They work with individuals who suffer from a mental, physical, developmental, or emotionally disabling condition. OT’s, as they are commonly referred to, use treatments to develop, recover, or maintain daily living and work skills of their patients. The therapist help clients not only to improve their basic motor functions and reasoning abilities, but also to compensate for permanent loss of function. The goal is to help clients have independent, productive, and satisfying lives. Ultimately whether you like it or not, OT's study almost everyone. The normal, the abnormal, the disabled, and the handicapped. Most likely there is a high probability that you know someone who receives some type of occupational care to allow them to learn and improve at something that they struggle with.