What is the difference between physical therapy and occupational therapy?

Physical therapy is used to help people recover everyday skills like walking, bending, running after being injured. occupational therapy is used to help recover job skills that were affected by injury thus the word occupation.

there are those who would differ....but therapy is therapy..and involves the restablishing of health and beyond the injury...fortunately it doesnot have to be confined to the limits of the therapist and can be immidiate or anything less than.... due to thenature of the gestation period...... these terms you have used can be missleading...what is physical?.....is it apart from what is called mental or spiritual?...is the term occupational....to do with oiur jobs...work the way we use the physical ?....ah try this...an occupant may be ...someone in a building.......so would you hold with me to say there must be an occupant in every living thing that produces life? so in a therapy...we work with that occupant...to help building/renovating/recycling and helping the vitality do its job....ty cheers some therapies consider movement an important factor...consider a wholsome therapy....thatb is one that considers wholeness