Occupational Therapy Rehab Essay

In occupational therapy rehab plays a vital role in improving your patients health. Each client should have a rehab program based uniquely to them and their injury. There are many forms of rehab, but many are repetitive and become boring over time. The health field is always looking for new and improved forms of rehab. One of the best ways to do this is look at what is catching on in our culture at this time. A new and upcoming form of rehab one that uses Pokémon GO. Before we dive into Pokémon GO, one of the hottest apps out, let’s discuss what Occupational Therapy is. Occupational Therapy is described by The American Occupational Therapy Association as, “assistants help people across the lifespan participate in the things they want and need to do through the therapeutic use of everyday activities (occupations).” Which is the meaning down to it’s core as my future occupation my job will being rehabbing people back to full health or as close as possible giving them the ability to live life as close to normal as possible. This job requires me to make sure my patients master fine motor skills as mentioned above, like tying your shoe, brushing your teeth or putting on a belt. All of these sound …show more content…
Some people might argue that Pokémon Go isn’t helping well those in the health field would say differently. Many people would argue saying is there not different or more effective forms of rehab. There are many different forms of rehab as we all know and they are designed to each clients needs. For example, Sirkka writes about how occupational therapy uses “Evidence-based practice (EBP)” (p. 429) and how using EBP “is based on integration of knowledge from different sources such as research, theories, and models of practice, the professionals’ clinical experiences from the clients in the local context.” (p.