Christian Institute of Health Sciences and Research

Occupational Therapy aims at achieving health, well-being, and participation in life through engagement in occupations. If a patient is recovering from an accident or injury, his/her valued occupations may be disrupted. Occupational Therapy emphasizes skill training rather than the deficit.
Occupational Therapy focuses on daily occupations which include:

• ADL (Activities of Daily Living) – Eating, Dressing, Grooming; providing aides and modifications to improve patient’s self-participation following stroke, Arthritis, fractures, etc.
• IADLs (Instrumental Activities of daily living) – Shopping, Child care; suggests simpler techniques and modifications perform each task efficiently with minimal assistance from caregivers.
• Work – Ergonomic modifications to patient’s workplace following injury/accidents, to make patients as functionally independent as possible or provide other options through vocational rehabilitation
• Leisure – Provide techniques and activities and skills to maintain a balance between work, sleep, and leisure to prevent burnout for active participation in the workplace and for older adults to improve their quality of life.
• Play-A toddler’s occupations involve playing to develop important skills to achieve developmental milestones.
• Education – For children with ADHD, GDD, and Autism who find it difficult to attend well in classes various techniques like Sensory Integration therapy are used to calm children down and improve attention. Life Skills training for children with Intellectual Disability.
• Social Participation – For patients following Spinal cord injury or patients with mental illnesses like schizophrenia etc., community participation may be limited because of society’s take on people with disability. Hence various group sessions with caregivers and patients