Occupational Therapy is normally provided by licensed Occupational Therapists (denoted by OT after their name) or Physical Therapists. Mostly aimed at returning injured or health challenged workers back to work, the field is a wider part of a "profession concerned with promoting health and well being through occupation. The primary goal of occupational therapy is to enable people to participate in the activities of everyday life.
Occupational therapists achieve this outcome by enabling people to do things that will enhance their ability to participate or by modifying the environment to better support participation." Occupational therapists use careful analysis of physical, environmental, psychosocial, mental, spiritual, political and cultural factors to identify barriers to occupation.
Occupational therapy draws from the fields of medicine, psychology, sociology, anthropology, ethnography, architecture and many other disciplines in developing its knowledge base." 1 See also Physical Therapy Rochester Providers RGH - Outpatient Rehabilitation Lake Plains Physical/Occupational Therapy Center 1Occupational_therapy