Your Ultimate Guide for Healthy Living

Ask most people what a therapist does and they'll have an answer. Ask them what a therapeutic recreation therapist does — and you'll usually get a blank stare. That's not a knock on anyone. It's a gap worth closing. Therapeutic recreation (TR) is a clinical health profession that uses recreation, leisure, and purposeful activity to improve the physical, cognitive, emotional, social, and spiritual well-being of people with illnesses or disabling conditions. It is practiced in