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Advocating For Occupational Therapy Intervention With In-House Athletics, Jatia Littles, Cynthia Haynes
Advocating For Occupational Therapy Intervention With In-House Athletics, Jatia Littles, Cynthia Haynes
Fall 2024 OTD Capstone Symposium
Occupational therapists (OT) have the opportunity to work with athletes by outsourcing through orthopedic centers with professional leagues such as the National Football League (NFL) (Jobs in Sports, 2022) but rarely do you see OTs within the sports complex working in-house. Although many studies go into great detail on the benefits of occupational therapy during the rehabilitation process, there are only a limited number of studies that explore occupational therapy intervention in athletics (Andreas et al., 2021). This project designed and implemented an occupational therapy-focused advocacy project that involves informing interprofessional sports faculty on the benefits of OTs being a …