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Recreational therapy (sometimes called therapeutic recreation) is an expanding field that uses activity-based interventions to help people with physical disabilities, sensory disorders, or mental-health needs fully participate in life. About 17,000 professionals work as recreational therapists,...

Pre-occupational therapy is a mouthful. But it’s actually a pretty easy-to-explain pathway to becoming an occupational therapist. First, let’s talk about what it means to be an occupational therapist.  What is occupational therapy? Occupational therapy is a kind of...

Dental care is crucial to the role of overall health and wellness. How hard is it to become a dentist? And should you become one? It takes eight years of schooling for most people to become a dentist — four years of undergraduate school and another four for dental school. All that...

When was the last time you were absolutely dreading completing a task? Did you do it right away? Chances are, you put it off to do something easier or more enticing. In other words, you chose to procrastinate. Experts define procrastination as the voluntary delay of some important task we intend...

If you are interested in healthcare — in understanding how the body works and learning about ways to help people who are sick or injured — there are many career paths to consider beyond becoming a doctor.  We need doctors, of course. What would we do without...