How Occupational Therapy helps people with chronic diseases?

Occupational Therapists are health professionals skilled in physical and psychosocial rehabilitation for people with disabilities, chronic diseases, and other medical conditions. Occupational therapy is dedicated to enabling individuals to participate in fruitful and meaningful activities of life. During the evaluation and intervention process, practitioners interact and collaborate with patients and their caregivers to achieve better results. By considering limitations and abilities of a patient, environmental features, and the specific demands of the activities that are important for the family or patient, occupational therapy practitioners help their patients to live life to its fullest.

How occupational therapy helps chronic disease management?

Occupational Therapy supports chronic disease management in several ways based on the nature and course of the specific conditions, goals for patients with chronic health conditions may include following:

·         Attending problems or symptoms associated with specific chronic illness to manage and sustain current abilities.

·         Developing strategies to embed energy conservation and activity modification techniques into daily schedule to cope with physical demands and reduce fatigue associated with many chronic conditions.

·         Individualising adaptations to efficiently conduct routine health management activities.

·         Learning and incorporating health management tasks into current habits so they become part of patient’s routine.

·         Teaching and demonstrating techniques to ease stress, help cope with pain, manage tiredness, or difficult symptoms associated with the disease.

·         Adapting activities to make them suitable for changing abilities and enable activities to continue.

·         Developing cope strategies, behaviour, habits, routines, and lifestyle adaptations to support physical and psychosocial health and well-being.

In occupational therapy, self management is recognised as an effective method to the management of chronic health conditions. It is the individual’s ability to manage the symptoms, treatment, physical and psychosocial consequences and lifestyle changes inherent in living with a chronic disease. Efficacious self-management includes ability to monitor one’s condition and to affect the cognitive, behavioural, and emotional responses essential to keep an adequate quality of life. 

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