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Occupational Therapy
Relevant information about Occupational Therapy.
- An overview of the treatment
In Europe during the early decades of the twentieth century, was conceived an alternative treatment to "rest cure" Occupational Therapy. This discipline is based on the following hypothesis: the human being can influence their own health status through the use of his hands, run through your mind. Thus, Occupational Therapy is a discipline that analyzes and implements the occupations of men to treat their health.
In a therapeutic context, the activities have a twofold effect. On the one hand, exercise and focus motor are an improvement of mood, as it diverts attention from physical or psychological suffering. On the other hand, the realization of activities brings with it a pleasure being or psychological impact on the improvement of patients that are resting. Thus, the occupational therapist proposes an approach to motor deficits, cognitive, sensory-perceptual and psychosocial problems that interfere with the normal performance of an individual.
Occupational Therapy part of a holistic approach, that is, an integral view of human beings. The idea is to provide the skills necessary for individuals to achieve maximum independence to carry out their daily activities.
However, the therapist is qualified to develop promotion, prevention and health recovery through the analysis and implementation of productivity-related occupations, play and leisure. In general, occupational therapy is part of a multidisciplinary work.
- What problem/ s is expected to be solved
In general, occupational therapy aims to help individuals achieve a positive attitude towards their skills and gradually change their skills diminished.
The goal is that subjects manage to maintain normal a life as independent as possible, despite its limitations. Key to this focus on the strengths that each has. Thus, it is also proposed to achieve new skills. In any case, the object will always have to do with the assessment, maintenance and development of psycho-social functional ability of the subject.
Among the functions of occupational therapy, also include early detection and assessment of dysfunctions of development. In this sense, early stimulation is one of its objectives and developing strategies to promote social integration of individuals with disabilities.
Professionals who work as occupational therapists can conduct their work in health centers, rehabilitation centers, general hospitals and special minority institutes, nursing homes, differential schools, psychopedagogical cabinets, half-way houses, penal institutions or workshops.
The treatment begins with an assessment of functional abilities and limitations of each patient. Then intervention strategies are formulated according to the particular needs of each case. The interventional device can be individual or group.
In case, where occupational therapy is initiated for rehabilitation, restoring function through therapeutic activities shall be exercised, or the use of residual capacities of the subject using the assistance of equipment or products. On the personal nature of these activities, rehabilitation treatments are paid individually.
In the case of treatments for children, the activity through which the therapeutic work is play. In children, the game is an integral element to their existence. In fact, it is the activity through which they develop their understanding of the world and their interaction with the environment. For all this, the game becomes a practical vehicle to attract the attention of the child, practice and specific functional motor skills and promote sensory processing, perceptual skills and the social, emotional and language.
In all cases, the occupational therapist provides and manipulates the environment, the subject or activity to achieve successful adaptation, active participation and initiative of the patient with the therapeutic process.
The average length of sessions varies from a few minutes to an hour, depending on the severity of symptoms, or boarding device. The weekly can be reached seven days. This is a treatment that requires a lot of perseverance and commitment. After the first month, as the case may yield observable.
The most common application areas of occupational therapy are the prevention, rehabilitation and special education.
The spinal cord injury, brain injury, stroke rehabilitation, arthritis and pain are some of the conditions to which occupational therapy can effectively address. Also, neuromuscular disorders, rehabilitation of multiple injuries, generalized weakness, Parkinson's disease and cerebral palsy.
You can also assist in the prevention of limitations or the development of daily living skills. Basic activities such as food, clothing, hygiene, functional mobility and communication are areas that can respond to this treatment.
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