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What Do Occupational Therapists Do? E mily was in a horrific car accident when she was 20 years old. Her car was hit by a speeding tractor-trailer. While it was miraculous that she survived at all, she quickly discovered that her traumatic brain injury required her to learn how to walk again with the help of a physical therapist. What she didn’t anticipate was that her injury would also cause her to lose the dexterity she once had in her hands. She set about working with an occupational therapist (OT) to relearn how to write, type, cook, and otherwise take care of herself.

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