Jimmie earlier posted a question from the website:
http://welcome.to/occupationaltherapy.com
Here's another interesting question and partial answer from the site:
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question> When a patient is recovering from an injury, what does he
question> want to do?
answer>> He wants to go back to doing the activities and occupations
answer>> that made his life enjoyable.
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Is this true? Not in my experience! What I've found is that when a
person is is actively recovering from their injury, that's IS what
they want to do. They want to recover! In other words, the person
wants their pain to decrease, or their body to work better -- that's
what they want to get better.
In my opinion, a person with an injury is primarily focusing on just
that, the injury (or illness). Not that people don't think about
getting back to their "activities and occupations", but in my
experience most people see lost "activities and occupations" as a
by-product of their injury or illness, not as the problem(s) to be
addressed.
I know that as a profession, we want to believe that people recovering
from injury want to get back to doing their "activities and
occupations" but I just don't think that is the way in which our
patients generally think. At least not in my experience. If it was the
way people think, our profession would be flourishing, both internally
and externally.
Ron
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