What do you do?Most common question we all come across,and we revert back saying I am.(Field of work) or I am attached to this organization as a ...And there is a range of work where we all fall in and place ourselves at a position while introducing ourselves.
But when i am questioned the same,i hold myself back saying i add life to years,Oh so are you a doctor?comes next..Well,yes i am the one who doesn't prescribe medicines but a dose of optimal and healthy living through my expertise of various techniques of intervention focusing on your functional gains.
Your Occupation is my area of work,and occupation refers to not just you being an employee but every role that you play and the work you are expected to perform in it.
Yes i am an occupational therapist who looks only at the abilities and carves out the best from you to make you independent and add quality to your life!
There is no room to loose hope ,if you are not functionally independent like before the advent of your illness,consult an Otist because he is all equipped with the solutions and will train you to stand by yourself and get back to life!
Areas of services range from pediatric to geriatrics,the child is not able to walk,lacking behind in school,not social,has learning disorder,is diagnosed with autism,Adhd,developmentally inappropriate to age or anything else-Knock on the door of Occupational therapist,we are here to help.
Seventy years granny is suffering from dementia,is at high risk of fall,is struggling to carry out her routine tasks,is diagnosed with any illness or has social disengagement-Come back to an Occupational therapist who are all available to help!
A kid hops around the house,breaking the glass not listening to anyone ,not completing is work or stays quiet,prefers to be away from social gathering,gets irritable,repeats words,or any such activity which seems to be away from the regular patterns of development,do not overlook,you have a professional to guide you.
Stroke or an head injury,Burns or a fracture,each condition that takes away your routine can be revived back by an occupational therapist.
Its a novel service that we Indians do not look at because our family culture is so loving that we keep a domestic help,do it by our self not knowing we are deteriorating patients condition and is proved by medical science research on the consequences of creating such kind of dependence and inactivity.Second scenario is such that patient and his family is unaware that after left side paralysis there is something that can be done,Be it the therapy or modifying the environment and the utilities or the the regular use objects in such a way that patient can be accommodated to function independently.
If you are aware of this service be of help to someone who needs it and you know, by simply putting in their ears and each of us can carve a path of independence.If the society strengthens its view on differently abled ,these people will make another army of strength because what they hold,you and i are no where near to them or their willpower.
-SSW
