Grayson County Judge Executive Gary Logsdon signs a proclamation naming April as Occupational Therapy Month in Grayson County, Kentucky. Looking on are Lisa Lykins, COTA/L at Twin Lakes Regional Medical Center; Merri Beth Bratcher, OTR/L for the Grayson County School System; Chris Fuller, PT,DPT and Director of Rehab Services at TLRMC; and Laura Lucas, OTR/L at TLRMC


What is Occupational Therapy???

This is an appropriate month to answer that question. . .
April is Occupational Therapy Month

“Skills for the Job of Living”

Occupational therapy addresses an individual’s performance in meaningful activities of daily life—this can include self-care skills, education, work, or social interaction—despite physical or mental impairments or limitations. Occuaptional therapy is for all-ages to maximize their performance in daily tasks at home, at school, at work, and at play. Occupational therapy focuses on the “HOW” of getting a person back to “DOING” activities meaningful to him/her. This can be as basic as “How can I feed myself?” to “How can I work at a job?”

Due to the wide range of ages and types of “meaningful” activites, there is some specialiaztion within the profession—some work with Children others with Geriatrics; some with Mental Impairements while others with Physical Impairments; and still others work with the principles of ergonomics to make workplaces safer and jobs

accessible.

The wonderful challenge in this field is that People are DIFFERENT—therefore the answers are not the same for each individual. Treatment is custom-designed to fit the individuals needs , wants, and resources.

>>This is where I am coming from. . .I have been practicing about 10 years now, and I continue to learn and grow to be the best resource for my clients. I am constantly looking for new and different ways to do things. I have also come to appreciate that we each individually have to take responsibility for making healthy choices. Prevention is better than trying to "fix" health concerns after the fact.

This is a very brief summary of Occupational Therapy. For more information please refer to
http://aota.org/
http://kotaweb.org/