What is OT in a nutshell

Occupational Therapy (OT) is a profession that is concerned with "human occupation" - anything that a person does or thinks. Anything that prepoccupies the person.  An Occupational therapist (OT) would, after medical condition of illness/accident, will try to get a person back to their occupations by either resolving the physical problems brought about by the condition or by adapting the environment to allow the person to be as independent as possible