Physical - Occupational Therapy

Occupational therapy is a discipline that aims to promote health by enabling people to perform meaningful and purposeful activities. Occupational therapists work with individuals who suffer from a mentally, physically, developmentally, and/or emotionally disabling condition by utilizing treatments that develop, recover, or maintain clients' activities of daily living. The therapist helps clients not only to improve their basic motor functions and reasoning abilities, but also to compensate for permanent loss of function. Many believe that occupational therapists are considered Physiotherapy assistants or assistants for many other important health professions such as podiatry or optometry. It is true that in Australia that Physiotherapy, Optometry, Podiatry and Pharmacy are much more important and more prestigious as an job than Occupational Therapy. The ultimate goal of occupational therapy is to help clients have independent, productive, and satisfying lives. Furthermore, occupational therapists are becoming increasingly involved in addressing the impact of social, political and environmental factors that contribute to exclusion and occupational deprivation.

Extracted from www.wikipedia.org.