ABSTRACT
Occupational therapists play a significant role on the pain management team as the members who look at how pain affects one’s everyday life and one’s ability to participate in the important everyday task of life or “occupations.” Pain treatment teams benefit from the occupational therapist’s contribution regarding how the individual functions in the everyday activities of his or her life. Occupational therapy is so named because the term occupation refers to “everything people do to occupy themselves, including looking after themselves (self-care), enjoying life (leisure), and contributing to the social and economic fabric of their communities (productivity or work)” (Law, Polatajko, Baptiste, & Townsend, 1997).
