These specialists help you adapt if pain, injury, illness, or disability prevents you from carrying on with your daily activities.
They can come to your home, workplace, or school and design a therapy plan. Your OT may:
Prescribe and train you to use assistive devices like raised toilet seats or wheelchairs
Teach you new ways to button a shirt, tie your shoes, get in and out of the shower, or work on your computer
Help older adults prevent falls in their home or in public areas
Treat adults who’ve had a stroke to improve balance, change their home to prevent injuries
Organize your medications or household tools
Address behavior problems in kids who act out or hit others
Build hand-eye coordination so you can hit a tennis ball
Work on motor skills so you can grasp a pencil