Occupational therapy caregiver training – it can be tough. I don’t know about you, but I find it frustrating when my recommendations for simple, low cost home modifications are not carried out after a patient discharges home. When older adult patients need caregivers help to follow through on home modifications, that means it’s up to us
Pain is such a limiting factor in our occupational therapy practice and must be addressed to help our patients achieve their goals and improve their quality of life. 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. Catastrophizing: A
When the word “perception” comes up in healthcare conversation, intuitively you should know that causes for concern go beyond just the structure of the eyeball. Visual information is taken from the surrounding environment and fed through the eyeballs. If visual disruptions were a matter of near or far sightedness (i.e. visual acuity), for example, then
As occupational therapy practitioners patient follow through can be tough. How can we make sure that what we are recommending is actually being implemented or purchased by our patients? Sometimes we even struggle to know what new and upcoming adaptive equipment is out there to make the right recommendations or that their care partners have access
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. Whether it’s due to age, injury, or
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
As new grad occupational therapy practitioners 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 never worked before or even an entirely
Explicit Motor Imagery (aka Imagery) – 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. I
Left-Right Discrimination – step 1 in Graded Motor Imagery Training. 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 that mirror
How can occupational therapy practitioners use labels to help our clients with dementia thrive in their environments? Well let’s back up… this post all started with this graphic I shared on Instagram. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Mandy {Seniors Flourish} (@seniorsflourish) on Apr 9, 2019 at 3:43pm PDT I created these