SCIRehab Project series: the occupational therapy taxonomy.

Background/objective: Lack of a classification system for occupational therapy (OT) rehabilitation interventions for traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI) rehabilitation in the United States makes conducting outcomes research difficult. This article describes an OT SCI rehabilitation taxonomy (system to categorize and classify treatments).

Methods: OT clinicians and researchers from 6 SCI rehabilitation centers developed a taxonomy to describe details of each OT session.