GMCH marks Occupational Therapy Day

AURANGABAD: In a bid to encourage occupational therapy among the practitioners and students, the Occupational and physiotherapy department at Aurangabad Government medical College and Hospital (GMCH) observed the World Occupational Therapy Day on Thursday.
To mark the event a poster exhibition at out-door patient (OPD) and lectures on the role of occupational therapy in different medical areas like orthopaedics, paediatrics, medicine conditions like paralysis, ergonomics were organized.
This program was inaugurated by the GMCH dean, Chandrakant Mhaske, while deputy dean Shivaji Sukre, medical superintendent Sudhir Choudhary and occupational therapists Kalpana Hande, Satish Maslekar, Anand Londhe, were present. “Occupational therapy is a growing healthcare profession with a wide horizon. Occupational therapists work with children who suffer from a variety of conditions, including birth injuries or birth defects, sensory processing or integrative disorders, autism, ADHD, developmental delay and handwriting difficulties or behavioral problems. They extend their services to individuals experiencing neurological, orthopedic and psychiatric problem, including cerebral vascular accidents (stroke), Parkinson's Disease, multiple sclerosis, head injury, spinal cord injury, fractures, hand injuries, schizophrenia, depression, and mania," said department head Kalpana Hande.
“Occupational therapy is the only profession that helps people across the lifespan to do the things they want and need to do through the therapeutic use of daily activities (occupations). Occupational therapy practitioners enable people of all ages to live life to its fullest by helping them promote health, and prevent—or live better with—injury, illness, or disability,” she added.