Ron,
I believe Dr. Dromerick's reference to compensatory
dressing techniques as "tricks" was meant to simplify
his comparison of compensatory vs. remedial approaches
to treatment of those with hemiparesis. I would not
read more into it than that.
As a former Washington U OT student, I remember Dr.
Dromerick lecturing several times in our Neurology
class. His stroke lecture basically covered the
various stroke etiologies and clinical manifestations
associated with each. What I would like you to think
about is that he is a medical doctor, not an OT, so
his descriptions of OT treatment approaches are not
going to be explained in a way that an OT would
explain them...just as I could not explain the
difference between a lacunar syndrome and Wallenberg's
syndrome in a way that neurologists would probably
speak of these syndromes among other neurologists. M.
Hahn, the third author listed, is an OT. I wonder how
her quote would have sounded if she, rather than Dr.
Dromerick, explained compensatory vs. remedial
approaches...probably quite different and more to our
liking because, Hey!-she'd be speaking "our language"
Sheila
Ron wrote:
<<Referring to adaptive dressing as "tricks" shows
total
ignorance not fro
only our profession but for the will, creativity,
commitment and effort
required to learn to overcome physical disability. Can
you imagine this guy
talking to impressionable OT students??? What do
students learn about
adaptation in the face of adversity if they are
reading that one-handed
dressing is a trick.>>
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