about therapeutic activities \

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Presented by: Hamna
Aqil
BSOT, Semester 2
DHPT, UOL

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• Therapeutic Activities:
 The therapeutic activities are the task
that are dynamic and funtional that
provide the patient or client the
treatment that helps in increasing
strenght and range of motion.

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For example:
The therapeutic activities Cover a wide range of functional
task like bending , lifting, catching , pushing , pulling ,
gardening , painting , drawing, listening, music .

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Physical activities
Therapeutic
activity
Music and dance
Meditation
Cooking
Arts and crafts Play and
fun
Exercises
Photography
Quizzez and
puzzles
Dramas and
puppetry
All ADL’s

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Therapeutic exercises:
 Therapeutic exercises are not normal exercises.
 They are the task given in order to gain specific
ramge of motion or strength.

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For example :
 If there is a client having difficulty in moving
shoulder joint.
 We will give him activity such as arranging book
shelf. In this way he will have a range of motion
while moving the hand left to right.

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Therapeutic Activities
 There are many therapeutic exercises that are provided to
the patient:
 Such as
 Games and play
 Arts and crafts
 Cooking
 Jogging

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Activities for increasing fine motor skills
 Playing with puzzles
 Yoga pushes
 Using tweezer to pick small things.
 Use punch hole to create different designs.
 Shred paper into small pieces.
 Playing any card games.

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 Color in a picture using small crayons.
 Sort different small pasta shapes.
 Build towers with small blocks.
 Make college by using small paper or pictures.
 Create paper clip chain.
 Play with finger puppets.
 Practice tying you shoes.

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Patient
arranging
puzzles
• Increasing
cognitive
skill.

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Playing with
dough to
increase motor
skills

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Cutting flower
( Fun activity +
Increasing fine
skill

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Finger
puppet
• It helps
in
moving
fingers

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Making paper
chain
• Both
hands co
ordination
increases

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Therapeutic gains:
 The values gain by doing therapeutic activity are:
 Bilateral movement increases
 Eye hand co ordination increases
 Range of motion improves
 Strenght of muscle increases

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 Creativity increases
 Cognitive appraoch increases
 Sitting tolerance comes
 Movements of muscles causes strenght
 Fine motor skills improves

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Muscles involved:
 The muscles of upper limbs are involved in
performing therapeutic activities:
 Shoulder muscles:
Teres Major, pectorolaris major
Deltoid.

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 Lower limb Muscles:
sartorios, gluteus maximus
Quadratus, gluteus minimus.

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 Upper Arm :
corachobrachialis, Bicep brachi,
Brachiallis
 Lower arm:
palmaris longus, Pollicis, Flexor
carpi, radilaius, Digiti minimi

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Benifits of therapeutic activities:
 Therapeutic activities are useful in many ways.
 They are cure for many psychological and minor
physical disorders .
 They also help to improve certain skills of a
person.

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 To adopt these activities in the work schedule and
help patient from relieving their stress level and in
turn improve the productivity.
 Deal with emotions like anger and sadness through
these helpful exercises.

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References:
 https://www.mbaskool.com/business-concepts/human-
resources-hr-terms/16709-therapeutic-activity.html
 https://www.alzinfo.org/articles/therapeutic-activities/

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