I evaluated a patient on Saturday with multiple medical issues including MD.
He has difficulty with dressing, bathing, toileting, etc because of
bi-lateral shoulder weakness.
I would address his shoulder strength but PT is already doing that. So, I
will work on adaptive dressing strate
I have to say that was the most annoying thing about working with SLP's in a
snf. I love working with patients who have cog goals. But all the things I
learned in COTA school that I could do with patients were done by SLP's. I
am still very confused about the role of SLP in a SNF. I thought their f
Just to let you know there is a big decline of PTs in the schools. There are a
lot of schools who are barrier free and the population is different were
working on transfers and traditional treatments will not be goals. The goals
are school based. We must evaluate how their skills are affecting t
If you are working on cognition you can still do what you learned in school.
You have to document it right. If the goal that the client and you created
requires it, then that is what you do.
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It just seemed as if we were doing the same things for a different reasons.
Is there something unethical about doing the same thing twice for different
reasons on a patient or should we be co-treating?
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Practice on someone else first Ron so you have the process 'pattern'
refreshed in your brain.
Blessings, Joan
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Are we being blindsided on the right while paying attention on the left?
The cognitive disabilities model developed by Claudia K Allen (an OT) is
used effectively by a few SLPs but their focus is on the speech ,
comprehension, communication goals. What kind of activities or
occupations are SLPs usi
For instance, why would a SLP give a person a peg board pattern?
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Are we being blindsided on
Why would we?
Blessings, Joan
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For instance, why would a SLP give a person a peg
I suppose they use it in OT for patients with cog decline to evaluate
following directions, perceptual skills and problem solving in a
non-scientific way but I have seen SLP's give them to patients and walk away
letting them do it for themselves and it left me confused as to what they
were looking
I just thought of another one...safety cards picturing safe/unsafe
functional activites. SLP's do them but so do I sometimes. More often than
not, I set up potentially dangerous situations in the OT kitchen and have
patients do a walk through and find the dangers. The SLP's co-treat with me
and bil
Dianne
I like finding real dangers better than the cards and I like them both
better than asking questions about what someone would do. They often
know the answers to the questions but fail to recognise the situation
when it happens.
Blessings, Joan
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Just wanted to say how much I liked the "elephant" analogy. I think is
really is clever and indicative of the profession as whole. We do function
in so many different realms that it is difficult to be united on our
explanation to "lay persons" what it really is that we do. Great way to put
it Mary.
Ron, I worked in a public school district for 5 years. There were only 2 kids
(out of about 70 on OT caseload) who had diagnoses such as CP that caused them
difficulty with transfers or ADL's. The majority of kids I saw had more "soft"
neurological symptoms due to sensory issues, fetal alcohol s
I will be working as a COTA/L in an outpatient Peds clinic starting next
month after working all summer in a SNF.( I did a 2 month FW rotation at the
Peds Clinic) I have a background in Early Childhood Education as well. I
remember well learning in ECE that "play" is a child's work...or we might
ca
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