occupational therapist

occupational therapy | Business English

occupational therapy
noun[ U ]
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the treatment of people with mental or physical health problems by involving them in activities:
The staff provide physiotherapy and occupational therapy.

Examples of occupational therapy

occupational therapy
Skills training versus psychosocial occupationaltherapy for persons with persistent schizophrenia.
Thirty-three stroke patients were treated at occupationaltherapy departments for a period of 12 weeks.
Occupationaltherapy involvement can be of major practical use; home visits and home modification may be necessary.
A randomised controlled trial of enhanced social service occupationaltherapy for stroke patients.
Occupationaltherapy is an important component in such a multidisciplinary program, including the use of assistive technology.
Involvement of adult rehabilitation patients in setting occupationaltherapy goals.
Conversely, those with specialist older people's teams had more users in receipt of occupationaltherapy services.
Occupationaltherapy in accident and emergency departments: a randomized controlled trial.
Covers topics related to complementary medicine physiotherapy occupationaltherapy, rehabilitation, and palliative care.
These include (a) impact on patients' quality of life, (b) holistic assessment - with referral to dietician and occupationaltherapy and (c) timeliness of interventions.
Counseling and spiritual carers are present and there are a number of complementary and creative therapies available in addition to nursing, physiotherapy, and occupationaltherapy assessment and support.
The research into the differentiation of podiatrist and foot care assistant roles has created openings for similar work within occupationaltherapy, intermediate care services and social care support workers.
Once the swallow has been assessed as persistently unsafe, further management is multidisciplinary, involving many specialties including medicine, nursing, speech and language therapy, physiotherapy, dietetics and occupationaltherapy.
A survey of predischarge occupationaltherapy home assessment visits for stroke patients.
The interventions were a medical and occupationaltherapy assessment (which included a measure of balance) and referral to relevant services such as outpatient departments and the day hospital.
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