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What are the main emerging physical issues that occupational therapists face? In the July-August-September 2004 edition of the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, the authors emphasize that in the near future, occupational therapists "will be treating an increasing number of clients with visual impairment." This is due to the fact that more and more adults are choosing to work until the age of 70, in order to make ends meet and pay off home mortgages. Older people may still have good use of their hands and be alert in their minds, but human eyesight inevitably fades with the passing of time.
In conclusion, it is also important to understand that other issues that negatively interfere with good healthy living - like cigarette smoking, eating disorders, stress and alcohol abuse - can be alleviated with creative approaches to occupational therapy. Indeed, according to the book, Walking Medicine: The Lifetime Guide to Preventative & Therapeutic Exercise Walking Programs, occupational therapy isn't always complicated or expensive.
The book's editors, Gary Yanker and Kathy Burton, tapped into the vast medical knowledge of 50 physicians for their book. They explain that "walking" - used in a comprehensive, controlled program - is occupationally therapeutic because walking "...can help reduce your need for medication by fighting problems...
The good news these authors also share is that by walking - they call it "cardiowalking" - the individual avoids having to receive potentially expensive occupational therapy later, after the heart attack happens.
Works Cited
Cynkin, Simme, and Robinson, Anne Mazur. Occupational Therapy and Activities Health:
Toward Health Through Activities. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1990.
Ellexson, Melanie T. "Topics in Geriatric Rehabilitation. Vision Rehabilitation." Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine 20.3 (2004): 154-172.
Jacobs, Karen. Ergonomics for Therapists. Boston: Butterworth Heinmann, 1999
The American Occupational Therapy Association, Inc. "Consumer Information: What is Occupational Therapy?" Retrieved 12 October, 2006, at http://www.aota.org/featured/area6/index.asp.
Yanker, Gary, and Burton, Kathy. Walking Medicine: The Lifetime Guide to Preventative
Therapeutic Exercisewalking Programs. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1990.
Works Cited
Cynkin, Simme, and Robinson, Anne Mazur. Occupational Therapy and Activities Health:
Toward Health Through Activities. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1990.
Ellexson, Melanie T. "Topics in Geriatric Rehabilitation. Vision Rehabilitation." Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine 20.3 (2004): 154-172.
Jacobs, Karen. Ergonomics for Therapists. Boston: Butterworth Heinmann, 1999
The American Occupational Therapy Association, Inc. "Consumer Information: What is Occupational Therapy?" Retrieved 12 October, 2006, at http://www.aota.org/featured/area6/index.asp.
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