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Geriatrics & Home Health | Neurology | Orthopedics | Pediatrics | Psychosocial Rehabilitation

OTs Step Up in Healthcare Reform

Whatever form healthcare reform eventually takes, several changes are clear now that President Barack Obama has signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act into law. One is that 33 million more people will have coverage. “Which for us, as a profession, that means we’ll be getting more business,” said Barbara L. Kornblau, OTR/L, JD, dean of the University of Flint (Mich.) School of Health Professions and Studies, during an educational session at the American Occupational Therapy Association 90th Annual Conference in Orlando, Fla. Read more »

Haiti Serves As Call to Action for Therapist Volunteers

On Jan. 12, Denise English, PT, felt a big shake. She was checking her e-mail in the library of Hopital Albert Schweitzer in Deschapelles, Haiti, 40 miles northwest of Port-au-Prince. The trip wasn’t out of the ordinary for her. English, who is from the Pittsburgh area, is project director for Health Volunteers Overseas, a group that partners with overseas hospitals and facilities to provide education-based projects and on-site training. Read more »

geriatrics & home health

PACE Programs Keep Seniors at Home - On a typical workday, Mark Borrego, OT, hits the road to help frail or disabled seniors in the sprawling Denver metropolitan region maintain the basic skills needed to live independently. Borrego is one of eight OTs on a multidisciplinary healthcare team who “float” to health centers where they are most needed by frail seniors 55 and older in the federally funded Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly, or PACE.

neurology

Method Uses Reflexes to Spur Development - It’s a treasured moment for most parents: the first time they place a finger in the delicate palm of their infant and feel tiny little fingers wrap around and squeeze it. For typically developing newborns, this automatic, involuntary response — known as the grasp reflex — provides comfort. For most babies, it exists for just a couple of months and then fades away, perhaps to the chagrin of a doting parent but to the satisfaction of doctors and therapists. The timely appearance and disappearance of early childhood reflexes and postural movements mean it’s less likely a child suffers from developmental delays.

Orthopedics

Gyrokinesis Aids in Stubborn Adjustments - Sharrie O’Neal has been working out on the Gyrotonic Expansion System for six years, and she has X-ray proof of a 2 mm increase in the space between her previously compacted T1 and T2 vertebrae to show for it. Although she had been receiving chiropractic treatment for her injury, it wasn’t until she started Gyrotonic exercise that the adjustments started to take.

Pediatrics

Handwriting Instruction Helps Patients Reach Goals - Monica Fortunato, OTR, had been an occupational therapist for more than two decades when she noticed her preschool-aged son was having difficulty holding a pencil. “He had no interest [in writing]. I started taking the Handwriting Without Tears courses with the intention of assisting him, and realized he was not the only one that needed help,” Fortunato says.

Psychosocial Rehabilitation

OTs Aid Growing Number of Soldiers with PTSD - CPT Erik Johnson, OTR/L, MS, was treating a military patient who was involved in a firefight in Iraq when the soldier saw his friend killed. After the incident, the man started showing signs that he was not coping well with the memory. He began avoiding people and when he returned to the U.S., he had no interest in the activities that used to bring him joy. But Johnson was optimistic that he could help him.

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