Occupational therapy is an important part of rehabilitation medicine. Its purpose is to help people with mental and physical disabilities to choose, participate in and apply purposeful and meaningful activities, so as to prevent, restore or reduce life-related dysfunction, enhance their participation in self-care, leisure and entertainment and production activities, promote their maximum recovery of physical, psychological and social adaptation functions, and improve their health status. Prevent the loss of ability and the occurrence of disability, guide them to reach the best living condition of individuals, and enable them to participate in and contribute to society and development in their own living environment.

The difference between occupational therapy and physical exercise therapy is that exercise therapy focuses on the physical rehabilitation of the body, while occupational therapy focuses on the overall functional rehabilitation of the individual. For the treatment of the same patient, physical exercise therapy focuses on restoring the mobility and muscle strength of each joint, while occupational therapy improves the function, daily living ability and various fine coordinated movements on the basis of the above functions. The purpose of occupational therapy is to exert the potential of patients as much as possible, and to restore personal self-care, psychology, social interaction and even work to the maximum extent.

Personal self-care training activities: including the training of daily activities, such as the ability of daily living and IADL.

Creative and creative manual activities: educate people with physical and mental disabilities to produce useful products, such as textile, pottery, metalworking, embroidery, flower planting and tree planting.

Recreational activities: ball games, games, piano, chess, cultural activities, etc. In order to enrich the life content of patients, divert attention, dilute the anxiety, depression and nervous nerves caused by patients worrying too much about the disease itself, and relax their body and mind.