Mainstream Media's View of Occupational Therapy as a Profession
As I was searching for an article regarding occupational therapy throughout mainstream media, I came across a recent article in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch regarding a 24-year old woman who was struck in the back of the neck by a stray round of bullets coming from a shooting suspect's assault rifle who was trying to shoot someone outside of an apartment complex. Collier was innocently doing laundry from the safety of her mother's apartment in downtown St. Louis, however this incident left her paralyzed from the neck down. The article highlighted the process of Gina Missel, Collier's occupational therapist, assessing what Collier was able to do independently and what areas of strength they would need to work on together. The article explained that Collier used a motorized wheelchair for mobility, however she was showing possible signs of nerve regeneration between her spinal cord and muscles due to pain spreading throughout her entire body. Missel applied electrical