Pain and occupational therapy must be addressed to help our patients achieve their goals and improve their quality of life, as it is such a limiting aspect of occupational performance. We will be looking at how the patient’s outlook and experience around pain and 4 ways we can help them overcome some of these challenges […]
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When I was a wee student and novice practitioner, I struggled with helping people be more independent with the most embarrassing, intimate part of toileting occupational therapy: wiping “How does one wipe their bottom?” I bemused After some potty parties (AKA toileting), I realized that people toilet all different kinds of ways! I needed to
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When you’re a student or new occupational therapist practicing on your own, it can be hard to decide which Basic Activities of Daily Living (BADL) occupational therapy assessments to use in order to track your patient’s self-care progress. There are so many to choose from, so it can be overwhelming trying to comb Google trying
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How do we utilize therapeutic use of self in occupational therapy (OT)? Or should we? It should come as no surprise that patients and clients are placed in a vulnerable position when undergoing rehabilitation after injury, disease, surgery, or any debilitating condition that inhibits function. Occupational therapy practitioners get to witness the good, the bad,
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Fall recovery is an important skill to teach our occupational therapy patients. How many times have we seen the commercial and heard, “help, I’ve fallen and I can’t get up!” Many times for older adults, falling is not about if it happens but rather about when it happens. Per the CDC, more than one out
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Occupational therapy advocacy is key to the growth and sustainability of our profession. Clients constantly question the difference of occupational therapy compared to physical therapy, and why they must participate if they “have not worked in a job in years.” With this confusion, our profession has been able to explain and elaborate on the roles
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I am always looking for ideas to shake up my OT treatments and try to get creative with activity tolerance activities, because it is just NOT functional or occupation based to have our clients standing and putting in pegs into a board (unless they find this fun!). So if you haven’t dug into 14 Occupation
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SNF, Productivity, Occupational Therapy – Ugh. I almost don’t even want to say those words out loud together… In all actuality, I feel it shouldn’t be called “productive,” it should be called what it really is: “billable.” We are ALL as efficient as we can be in skilled nursing facilities (SNF), but SNF productivity standards
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OT treatment ideas for SNF, especially if you are a new grad OT in SNF settings, are always welcome in an occupational therapy practitioner’s toolbox. Time to “up” the challenge with a facility scavenger hunt. Remember though, you’re an OT which means that this can’t be any scavenger hunt that even a high school student
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