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occupational therapy
the use of purposeful activity to provide services aimed at restoring the ability to do (activities of daily living) and other work and leisure tasks for persons who have incapacities or deficits that reduce such abilities. This involves
evaluating problems arising from a developmental disability, a physical illness or injury, a mental disorder, the aging process, or any of various other psychological or social disabilities.

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