Occupational Therapy and hospice care practitioners improve quality of life in patients by helping people engage in those meaningful occupations, even if it is at their end of life. Karmella Bognot MS, OTR/L shares her experience working in occupational therapy in oncology and palliative care people in a hospice setting and how our role as […]
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Activity analysis is the KEY to occupational therapy. It helps us be holistic. It helps us be client centered. It helps us look at how we can help our patients return to the occupations that they need and want to do! Sometimes when we are working with our patients as occupational therapy practitioners, we tend
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Retropulsion has been a teensy-weensy thorn in my side. As in, “I am not exactly sure how to train or what types of treatment ideas” are there for my patients with parkinsons disease (PD) pushing back or losing their balance backwards when I am specifically working on functional transfers. It is a big factor in
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In an ideal world, all of our occupational therapy (OT) patients would be able to get all the adaptive equipment and DME supplies that they need and get it paid for. This, of course, is not the reality and many occupational therapy practitioners (OTPs) end up scrambling around to find durable medical equipment (DME) that
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Are you having a hard time figuring out creative stroke treatment in your occupational therapy practice? It’s actually my favorite population to work with and I was always so excited to get stroke treatment and evaluation orders in the hospital. The patient’s have always been so hardworking and stroke treatments are creative and progressive. My
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Have you ever felt like you just don’t know where to start when addressing incontinence with your patients? Today, Krista Covell-Pierson OTR/L, BCB-PMD talks about what we can do get started treating this area of practice. Subscribe here on: iTunes or Stitcher Krista is sharing with you a free download of a Voiding Diary (plus, it’s easy
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One quick occupational therapy tip for an ADL treatment idea is to use theraband (or any other resistance bands!) to simulate dressing with your patients when completing the occupation of dressing is not an option. In this post, we will be going though how to use this to practice putting on a button shirt, pants
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How to use a cane – seems pretty simple, right? Have you ever watched the show “House” with Hugh Laurie as the infamous Dr. House and cringe as he walks down the hall with his cane that is not in the right hand or even the right height? Ok, maybe not…but I sure do! I
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I am always looking for new ideas to work on fine motor skills, specifically when working with adults. I tend to resort to my “old favorite” list of fine motor coordination activities that I know work well, along with specific occupations that are important to my patients. But when I am working with a long
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