Occupational therapy helps patients live life to the fullest by promoting wellness and preventing injury, illness, or disability. The end goal of occupational therapy is to enable patients to be in an optimal environment that makes life easier. While occupational therapy can seem fairly similar to physical therapy, OT involves treatment to improve everyday activities or occupational duties. Daily living activities like bathing, using the restroom, getting dressed, eating, moving around, grooming, or sleeping, occupational therapy can help. OT lets people of all ages fulfill the activities they want and need to do.
Occupational therapy is beneficial because it helps to change a patient’s environment in the most effective ways. A patient working through occupational therapy will feel more in control of their life, stronger, and more confident.