It is a profession in the area of health that, through the assessment of the physical, psychological, sensory and social capacities and problems of the individual, who assists, with the appropriate treatment, to train him to achieve the greatest degree of independence possible In your daily life. Contributing to the partial or total recovery of your disease and facilitating adaptation to your disability.
It defines Occupational Therapy as a profession that deals with the promotion of health and well-being, through occupation. The main objective of occupational therapy is to empower people to participate in activities of daily living. Occupational therapists achieve this result by enabling individuals to perform those tasks that will optimize their ability to participate, or by modifying the environment so that it reinforces participation. Occupational therapists have extensive training that provides them with the skills and knowledge to work with those individuals or population groups that suffer the affectation of a bodily structure or function, due to some change in health, and therefore, causes them to experience limitations on your participation.
