This article discusses the role of occupational therapy in bariatric care. The article discusses the difficulties people in the bariatric population deal with on a daily basis when it comes to completing ADL's that require bending and reaching. The article discusses how occupational therapists can introduce adaptive equipment in order to increase independence in activities such as showering and dressing. The article also discusses how occupational therapists can improve strength and endurance to enable patients to participate in functional activities.

This article discusses the struggles patients go through when living with COPD. The article describes the way that COPD prevents patients from participating in occupations, and causes patients to forfeit roles that they have had throughout their lives. It also discusses the way that these changes lead to depression and anxiety. The article then goes into detail of the ways occupational therapists can provide energy conservation techniques that will allow the patients to regain those roles and participate in occupation and reduce anxiety and depression.

This article discusses treatment methods for patients who would benefit from cardiac rehabilitation. The article outlines a 12 week program that starts with preparatory exercises to improve heart health prior to participating in occupations. The article then goes into details of how to introduce the patient to their occupations after building the functional strength and endurance needed to participate in them.

This article outlines a number of upper extremity exercises that can be beneficial for a wide range of patients recovering from stroke. The article breaks the patients into 3 groups called Basic, Intermediate, and Advanced. This will provide useful exercises to have in an occupational therapy tool bag for patients of all levels after recovering from stroke.

This article outlines the benefits of preparatory and occupation based interventions for stroke patients. The article discusses UB activities to improve ROM while increasing independence in ADL and IADL activities.

This article focuses on the occupational therapists role in a school setting. OT's help students to adapt to routines, and perform competently in academic tasks. It also discusses the role that OT's play in treating children with autism in the school system.

This article discusses the role that occupational therapists play in treating sensory processing disorders through sensory integration. Some of the benefits of a well regulated sensory system include competence in social-emotional outcomes and ADL performance.

This article discusses the benefits of play for children. Play helps children grow and enables them to gain skills like physical coordination, emotional maturity, social skills. As a child, play is a major occupation and this article sheds some light on those benefits.

This is an article that discusses the benefits of health promotion, which focuses on disease prevention. Occupational therapists play a key role in health promotion when we work on disease prevention. The article states that a benefit of health promotion is decreased healthcare costs.

This is an information sheet from AOTA that describes the benefits and possible uses for assistive technology. It goes into detail describing how to complete an activity analysis and find assistive technology that can help a client complete that occupation.