My previous post outlined the value of OT and spoke about a
recent article that highlighted how OT’s are underutilized, but provide great
value in healthcare. I could not agree
more. And I would hope that anyone that
has encountered a good OT would also agree.
One of our biggest challenges as we try to become a “household name” is
the fact that people still struggle to understand what we do, and how we do
it. With OT there is no magic formula so
we can’t publish the recipe for our secret sauce. Besides, we don’t see disability in a vacuum
where a diagnosis determines the treatment.
Rather, we look at each disability in the context of that person, in
that environment, and this makes it impossible to really give people the goods
on how we help. OT then is the
definition of healthcare “customization”.
Perhaps you really need to experience an OT to understand and appreciate
the scope of what we do.
However, I always love spreading creative and fun ways to
explain our profession. These two You
Tube videos are well done, and explain OT in a way that
you can’t put on paper. Take a look,
enjoy and hopefully you too will be saying to someone someday “maybe you need
an OT”?
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