Verywell Health on MSN

What is occupational therapy?

Medically reviewed by Forest Miller, OTR/L Key Takeaways Occupational therapy helps people do everyday tasks on their own. It ...
Gentle range of motion exercises can help people with ALS maintain flexibility, ease stiffness, and support comfort in daily movement.
Does your child have difficulties with day-to-day activities at home, school, or in the community? Do they experience challenges that do not affect most typically developing children? If so, an ...
Occupational therapy is a health and rehabilitation profession that helps people function independently. You will work with people who, because of illness, injury, or developmental or psychological ...
When Tosha Tharp-Gaitanis incorporated the family pet, a French bulldog named Zoe, to help liven up the occupational therapy exercises prescribed for her son, who has Asperger’s Syndrome, it made a ...