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The aim of this research was to clarify how crafts and doing things by hands are utilized and what kind of in-fluence they have in physical rehabilitation especially in Cerebrovascular accident (CVA) patience´s occu-pational therapy. There are very few researches available related to craft´s effects for physical health because almost all ear-lier researches have been concentrated on the mental influences when doing things by hands. In this re-search the idea was to study possibilities of the crafts concentrating mainly on less studied physical rehabili-tation without forgetting mental side which also has a strong connection to the subject. Based on that two main questions were set for the research 1) What kind of effects doing by hands has in the physical rehabili-tation? 2) How the use of hands is utilized in occupational therapy? I collected my data by interviewing two occupational therapists, who have made a long career in rehabilita-tion and used crafts to support and help their work. The interview was carried out as a theme interview based on the questions which came up into my mind when collecting theoretical background for my re-search. Before the interviews I divided all questions to four themes: rehabilitation and CVA (cerebrovascular acci-dent), occupational therapy, crafts in therapy and art therapy. The research method was qualitative data analysis. I felt it necessary to define research questions more de-tail before thematisation, to make it easier to divide subjects under the right research question in the analysis of the data. After that all received answers related to each research question were grouped in themes. Doing things by hands and crafts have a lot of both, physical and mental effects on people. It all starts from inside of a person´s head and via that it reflects to physical functions. Especially, empowering emotions, like the joy of doing things, passion, motivation and a feeling of own capability were noticed to be important fac-tors in physical rehabilitation. Furthermore, doing things by yourself leading to better development of hands functionality was considered important. Upper limb rehabilitation is in the center of occupational therapy because human needs hands in everyday life. The use of hands is utilized in occupational therapy both in casual tasks and via crafts. Target is also to improve motor functions and movements of the person under rehabilitation. When applying the functionality practices are combined to some interesting actions when rehabilitation happens without paying any special attention to that. Functionality can also be applied by using certain type of auxiliaries when also working with physically disabled person come easier. The most important tasks of the Occupational therapists are to find customer´s spontaneity and will to do things, to make people feel good and fulfil their dreams.