Occupational Therapy

Occupational Therapy helps adults, children, and the elderly return to everyday activities, by not only fixing their physical needs, like a broken leg or arm, but their attitude on life. Your attitude on life can how you heal, if you have a negative attitude then your recovery will slow and ineffective. If you have a positive attitude your recovery will be faster and you will be able to do more things. Occupational therapy if the fastest growing career field, it is expected to grow 23 between 2006 and 2016. In America there are 1.5 million traumatic brain injuries annually. Jodi Levin an occupational therapist on the brain injury unit of Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation. Jodi's job is to plan exercise that will help her patients develop or adapt skills to live as safely and independently as possible and to educate their families on how to adjust to their family member’s new needs. One of Jodi's most memorable patients was a young man about 20 years old who was in a comma, had broken legs and a wrist. After three month of working with Jodi he left the hospital with a walker. On Jodi's outpatient rotation she continued to work with the young man. It is now three years after his accident and he has a job and is thinking about going back to college to study occupational therapy. The patients like this young man make it seam worth it.