The status of occupational therapists in India are yet dubiois and far from doctors as it is reckoned inferior to physicians right since the discovery of the course in the KEM Hospital of Mumbai in 1952

It is usually comprised of a graduation course called bachelor of occupational therapy which is a four and half year course followed by a masters course known as masters in occupation therapy which is the two or three year course depending on the institution and many institutions exchanges medical college or training various individuals in this novel art over the years

to make it very clear to you as to what occupational therapist and how they are different from intensive is a physiotherapist is that an occupation therapist with Radha help you with economics as in helping your just your environment and your occupation after you have been inflicted by some element or have undergone a drastic change in your life due to an accident on likewise which will not only help you to adjust to your environment but will also support you psychological and make the best out of what you have

for example if a person has met with an accident and fractured leg and it is dream that you will never regain power in that leg as before he will be treated by an orthopedician as to the internal fixation of the bony defect and then looked after by the physiotherapist or a doctor in physical medicine and rehabilitation for recuperate him to a level very can walk and more about himself

apart from the MS orthopedics and the MD PMR doctor who are involved in this regard there is also a person who has qualified in bachelor of physiotherapy who will be helping him with fixing his bodily defecthereafter in proper governments setups or esteem private setups you will be referred to an occupation therapist who will help him adjust to his job or ask him to change his lifestyle of job accordingly to his body parts so that he does not get frustrated and can make the best out of his available situations in order to lead a healthy living without interfering directly into his bodily defect

in short you can call occupational therapist a special branch of clinical psychologist and ergonomics who will help you adjust to challenging situation in your life by helping you make the best out of your situation but sadly yet they have not been granted the status of doctors in India although in foreign countries the United States and MD or Ms degree in occupational therapy is present at the moment which is equivalent to a doctor

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