Occupational Therapists play a major role in prevention and management in skin and wound care. Wounds and injuries can restrict persons participation in day to day activities e.g. Self care. Wounds can be of physical Injuries and mental disabilities like e.g. Depression, decreased social participation. As a part of rehabilitation team Occupational Therapists’ role plays in helping the clients return to pre injury physical and emotional function ⁽¹⁾. 

Heidi Mc Heigh Pendilon,Winifred Schultz-Krohn.Pedretti’s, Occupational Thearapy - Practice Skills For Dysfun-ction. 6^th ed.USA: Mosby Year Book, Inc

Harcourt Brace & Company & Asia Pte Ltd 1998. Chapter39, Hand and Upper Extremity Injuries; p1015

S. Sathish Kumar

Sr. Occupational Therapist & In-charge, Department of Occupational Therapy,

JIPMER, Puducherry and Research Scholar, Himalayan University, Arunachal Pradesh

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