Are you integrating the AOTA Occupational Profile into your practice? This powerful tool has the potential to revolutionize the way you provide client-centered care and elevate your practice. The occupation profile for occupational therapy practitioners (OTPs) serves as a foundational tool for gathering comprehensive information about clients’ backgrounds, interests, and goals, guiding the development of […]
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Ever have a patient with a stroke and wonder if mirror therapy intervention would work? I remember as a new occupational therapy grad watching other OTs using a mirror in treatment, wondering what the purpose was and if it truly helped our patients make progress. I made it a mission to find out: 📌 what
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I love that LSVT BIG Program® is determined to help OT practitioners learn evidence based treatment strategies to help clients that have Parkinson’s Disease (PD). In this article we will dig into the what and how occupational therapy practitioners can use this program with our patients. What does LSVT BIG Stand For? LSVT BIG program
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Explicit Motor Imagery (aka Imagery) is step 2 in the Graded Motor Imagery training continuum. I previously discussed step 1, Left/Right Discrimination in this blog post here and it all started with the reflections I have had as an occupational therapy practitioner trying to use mirror therapy with my patient and not having good results.
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Left right discrimination is where you need to start if you have ever have a patient that had a stroke, try mirror therapy with them and wonder “why am I doing this?” because it never seemed to work?🙋 I have (more times than I’d like to admit)! It’s super frustrating, especially since the evidence shows
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The struggle is real. Dementia bathing or patients with other cognitive impairments is one of the biggest struggles from caregivers. There is fighting, arguing, and frustration. There is worry about body odor, risk of infection and being in pain due to chaffing and soreness. Everyone that struggles with bathing goes through this. First thing to
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Per usual practice, occupational therapy practitioners don’t typically set up or change weight bearing precautions for their patients. That order comes from their primary physicians who also order therapy evaluations and services to begin with. Occupational therapy practitioners (OTPs) are informed about weight-bearing precautions via a prescriptive order in the form of, sometimes unrecognizable, acronyms:
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As a new grad occupational therapy practitioner new to working with older adults, it can be hard, heck, I might even throw in there Level II Fieldwork students too, but this doesn’t have to be the case! Yes, there is a learning curve to a new population you are working with, a setting you have
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How do you know when to recommend a Broda Chair over a Geri Chair? As occupational therapy practitioners, sometimes making the recommendation for a wheelchair can be hard, especially for a person that doesn’t quite fit the norms of a standard seating and positioning. So I went right to the source and teamed up with
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