One of the goals i set for myself at the beginning of the term was to get to know about occupational therapy, which I would say is the biggest goal of mine at this point. There are many things i didn't know that I do now. Occupational therapy isn't what I thought it was (PT for wrists and hands), this is something more complex. Occupational therapy deals with fine motor skills so the movements we do naturally that some people might not be able to do, such as getting dressed, brushing our teeth, driving etc... Occupational therapy goes off into so many different directions, the therapist at David Gilboe is a "hand therapist" so at one point in her life she was an occupational therapist, she went back to school and went into specializing and she is now a hand therapist. She is not a physical therapist nor is she an occupational therapist, she is a hand therapist and that basically means that she is dealing with mostly hands and arms. Occupational therapy is also very cool because it deals with mental disorders as well such as schizophrenia, anxiety, PTSD etc... I love those kinds of things as well and i had no idea that they go hand in hand. For example, someone has a stroke and loses their whole left side of their bodies functions whats that person going to do? Probably freak out if they have a mental illness like that. It is the therapists job to do assessments on the patient so they can see if this patient is capable of living on their own and doing things like they used to.
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May 2016
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