2. Definition of Occupational Therapy Practice for the AOTA
Model Practice Act
The practice of occupational therapy means the therapeutic use of
occupations, including everyday life activities with
individuals, groups, populations, or organizations to support participation,
performance, and function in roles and
situations in home, school, workplace, community, and other settings.
Occupational therapy services are provided for
habilitation, rehabilitation, and the promotion of health and wellness to
those who have or are at risk for developing
an illness, injury, disease, disorder, condition, impairment, disability,
activity limitation, or participation restriction.
Occupational therapy addresses the physical, cognitive, psychosocial,
sensory-perceptual, and other aspects of
performance in a variety of contexts and environments to support
engagement in occupations that affect physical and
mental health, well-being, and quality of life.

3.  Orthopaedic conditions such as arthritis, joint
replacements, spondylosis, sports injuries, etc

4.  Purposeful activities, modalities, equipments,
exercises , splints and braces.
 To increase range, strength, decrease pain and
positioning and immobilization of joints.
 The prevention and correction of deformity and
disability.
 To incorporate specific precautions in activities
of daily living and use of adaptive equipments
for maximum independence.

6. Developing MOTIVATION
Improving self-esteem &body
image
Stress management
Stretching exercises
Core muscle strenghening

7.  Conditions such as cerebral palsy, autism,
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, etc

8. Treatmen
t intake
CNS
processing
Evalution output

9.  Sensory Integration is the ability to take in, sort out
and respond to the input received from the
environment.

10.  Improving hand functions like grip
 Developing fine motor abilities and co-
ordination
 Improving cognitive abilities like
memory,reasoning,attention span,etc
 Hand-writing improvement

11. Develop healthy social skills
Development of healthy play
Provide engagement in group activities

12.  Learning disability is a group of
disorders manifested by significant
difficulties in the acquisition and use
of listening, speaking, reading,
writing, reasoning or mathematical
abilities or of social skills.

14.  Assess the child’s motor and sensory needs in context of
overall educational and emotional development.
 Plan remediation program using neurodevelopmental
and sensorimotor treatment techniques.
 Provide aids like pencil grippers’ etc to overcome
physical limitations
 Provide guidelines to class teachers so that child’s
limitations are understood. This facilitates child’s motor
performance and reduces the stress of his everyday
motor activities.

15.  Rehabilitation following coronary bypass surgery,
angioplasty, valve replacements, etc.

16. •Patient education
•Teaching active cycle of
Breathing Technique
•Breathing exercises
•Ventilatory muscle training
•Energy Conservation Techniques
•Work analysis
•Work Simplification Techniques

17.  Psychological upliftment
 Early stump use in Activities
 Improving body awareness & prevent neglect of
the stump
 Muscle strengthening
 Developing balance &bed transfers
 Prosthesis training,wearing schedule & check-outs

18.  Treatment and eventual re-integration of patients
as functional members of society

19.  Resocialization
 Social Skill Training
 Satisfication of emotional needs
 Improve performance components
 Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
 Projective Technique
 Movement Therapy
 Behavioural Therapy

20.  Pelvic floor execises
 Strenghening peroneal muscles
 Maintaining flexibility &
 Maintaining mobility
 Relaxation Techniques &
 Sensory Stimulation therapy

21.  Conditions such as low back pain or sciatica,
carpal tunnel syndrome

24. Under the statutes or Workman’s Compensation, disability
may be divided into three periods
which are:
1. Temporary total disability is that period in which the injured
person is totally unable to
work. During this time he received orthopaedic or other
medical treatment.
2. Temporary partial disability is that period when recovery
has reached the stage of
improvement so that the person may begin some kind of
gainful occupation.
3. Permanent disability applies to permanent damage or to
loss of use of some part of the
body after the stage of maximum improvement, from
orthopaedic or other medical
treatment, has been reached and the condition is stationary.

25. Evaluate the percentage of disability in
upper extremity and lower extremity.
Components like Range of
Motion,Muscle
Power,Sensations,locomotion,ADL
independence,etc are evaluated
40% and above are given exemptions
&other facilities

26. Hospice care is end-of-life care provided
by health professionals and volunteers.
They give medical, psychological and
spiritual support. The goal of the care is
to help people who are dying have
peace, comfort and dignity. The
caregivers try to control pain and other
symptoms so a person can remain as
alert and comfortable as possible.
Hospice programs also provide services
to support a patient's family.

27. •Relaxation therapy
•Helping full-filling last wishes of life
•Providing easy access to environment
•Hobby development and engagement in
productive tasks,etc

28.  With increasing age,people tend to be affected by
multiple problems in multiple areas of life.
 Physical problems like degenerative joint diseases,
cardiopulmonary problems etc
 Mental problems like depression, Alzheimer’s disease
etc .
 Social issues like isolation, financial insecurity and
inability to live independently.

29.  Encompass acute care, long term care, adult day
care and home health care.
 Assess physical and psychosocial dysfunction and
plan therapy for elderly persons.
 Maintain current health status and prevent decline or
injury.
 Useof compensatory strategies and rehabilitative
techniques to help older persons live with a disability
regaining maximum functions.

33.  Environment modification like installing
grab bars,ramp,etc
 Improving acessability to
temple,theatres,educational
institutes,work,etc
 Adaptive equipments like grab bars,writing
device,enlarge handled spoon,lond
handled scrubber,etc

36.  Available resources like
bamboo,sticks,tyres,trees,etc in
rural areas are used for therapeutic
interventions.
 Training is provided for promoting
functional independence and
facilitating productivity

37.  Occupational Therapy therefore
helps bridging the gap between
what we can do & what we want
& need to do.

38. THANK
YOU