What is OT?
Therapy that encourages rehabilitation through the performance of activities required in daily life
What is Occupational Therapy?
Meaningful activites that "occupy" your time.
Give an example.
What is Occupations?
A Sock aid or Jar Opener are examples of what?
What is Adaptive Devices?
This setting allows for clients to be seen in their own environment.
What is Home Health?
OT 250/251:
Model that emphasizes occupational performance shaped by interactions between person, environment, and occupation.
What is PEO Model?
Occupational Therapy Month is celebrated during this month each year.
What is April?
An approach that treats both the mind and the body.
What is Holistic Approach?
Therapy technique used to help children regulate sensory input.
What is Sensory Integration?
In this setting, OTs work with individuals or groups to develop life skills, social participation, and explore leisure
What is Mental Health?
Medical Terminology 101:
Inflammation of the epicondyle.
What is Epicondylitis?
This University established the study of Occupational Science in 1989.
What is USC?
Give an example of an OT's role in any setting(e.g., school setting, mental health, etc).
Answers for examples will vary.
EX: In a school setting, OTs can help students improve fine motor skills for tasks like writing.
Installing grab bars near the toilet and shower is an occupational therapy strategy used for this safety prevention.
What is Fall Prevention?
This population is generally seen in skilled nursing facilities and assisted living facilities.
Additionally, name one professor who works in this setting.
What is Geriatrics/Dr. Diego Lopez?
Kinesiology 101:
The system is used for structure and facilitates movement in the body.
What is Musculoskeletal/Skeletal system?
A national professional association established in 1917
What is American Occupational Therapy Association?
Occupational therapists address the physical, cognitive, psychosocial, and other aspects of performance in a variety of contexts to support engagement in...
What is Activities of Daily Living(ADL)?
Name 3 adaptive devices used for dressing.
Answers for the examples will vary.
EX: Shoehorn, Dressing Aid, Button Hook
This setting helps children participate in school activities and succeed in the classroom.
What is School Setting/ Dr. Jhennylyn Rivera-Villano?
Anatomy/Physiology 101:
The exchange of nutrients, gases and wastes occurs in these types of vessels.
What is Capillaries?
The origin of occupational therapy traces back to this historical period. What role did therapists play at that time?
What is the World War l/helping soldiers recover?
OT practitioners evaluate this concept, which refers to a client’s ability to successfully engage in meaningful occupations.
What is Occupational Performance?
Changing the environment (adding grab bars or ramps) to improve independence is called this.
What is Environmental modification?
In this setting, OTs provides intensive, 24/7 medical care and therapy for recovery from serious injuries, surgeries, or illnesses.
Additionally, name one professor who works in this setting.
What is Inpatient Rehabilitation/Dr. Carly Roberts?
Anatomy and Physiology 101:
This valve prevents backflow of blood from the right ventricle to the right atrium.
What is a Tricuspid Valve?