OT, short for occupational therapy in English，is a specialized rehabilitation specialty. With purposeful, selective occupational activities or program OT is responsible for helping patients to obtain their maximum independence in self-care, working and recreation for life of high quality.

What kind of treatment program can OT provide?

1. The necessary activities for daily living including the repeated daily activities such as eating, changing clothes, toileting etc will be provided here to make patients master the skill of daily living and improve their independence of self-care. 

2. Therapeutic activities. According to patients’ individual functional disorder, occupational therapist will select appropriate activities or training equipment to improve their function of movement.

3. Manual work activities including various kinds of comprehensive functional training of physical and psychological field, such as handicraft, weaving woodworking etc to increase both interest and self-confidence of patients. 

4. Psychological and social activities. Recreational and artistic activities are selected for patients to regulate their psychological condition and keep harmonization between patients and society.

In a word, both purpose and methods of OT emphasize particularly on occupational ability to improve function and independence of self-care of patients. The patients of OT department should include those at any age with diseases mainly including hemiplegia resulted from cerebral stroke, brain injury, paraplegia resulted from spinal cord injury, peripheral nerve injury, bone and joint diseases, hand trauma, amputation, cerebral palsy etc.

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