Before I was an occupational therapy student, I thought that occupational therapy focused on the UE functions. Now though the help of my professors, I have learned that occupational therapy is about making sure that the individual is able to do those things they use to do prior to his or her illness or disablity. OTs do a varity of activities to help people to gain independence with ADLs such as dressing, feeding, functional mobility.OTs also help individuals to do things that they are interested in such as playing a sport, cooking,etc. Some people don't realize that in order to dress yourself and cook your favorite dish, you have to have more than UE functions.
>From: Ron Carson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Dichotomy of teaching OT
>Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 11:03:52 -0400
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>Today, in my human occupation class, I spent a solid hour discussing
>occupational performance as it relates to role competence. The theory,
>as written in Christiansen and Baum's, "Enabling Function and
>Well-being", is that humans engage in occupation in order to be
>competent at their roles. And that role competence is a fundamental
>drive of healthy humans. The point of the lecture is to help students
>begin to gather some understanding of the necessity, complexity and
>depth of enabling occupation in their future clients.
>
>At the completion of class, a student held up a poster that was
>requesting volunteers or announcing a presentation or something. The
>research and poster were about UE Muscle Strength. I asked the students
>if they were confused by this dichotomy that we had just had a class
>about human occupation and why OT should not be practiced like
>upper-extremity PT and then to be doing research on UE function.
>
>One student responded that it was confusing and the other student
>seemed confused. And frankly, I'm confused!! It seems like some OT's
>see UE function as our trademark practice pattern while other OT's see
>occupation as our trademark. I am confused by this situation, can
>anyone help??????
>
>Thanks,
>
>Ron
>
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