Adhering to sternal precautions after open heart surgery can be quite a challenge. Just ask any of your patients post-op and they’ll let you know how hard it is! If you think about, how often do you automatically use your arms during daily activities like getting up from a low surface, dressing, or carrying something? […]
If you’re an occupational therapist or student new to working with orthopedics, this post is for you! Making the switch from working in a non-orthopedic setting to an acute orthopedic setting can be a challenge for occupational therapists less familiar with patients following joint surgeries. It can also be a bit scary at first for […]
If you’re currently applying to occupational therapy school, or you will soon be applying to OT school, this post was written just for you! I was inspired to write this article when I was a new occupational therapist, highlighting the mistakes I personally made when applying to OT school so you don’t have to go […]
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If you’ve landed here, chances are you’ve seen what occupational therapy can do. Maybe you had a family member relearn how to dress after a stroke, maybe a child in your life started thriving after working with an OT, or maybe you shadowed a therapist and thought, “this is it, this is what I want […]
If you’re on the path to becoming an occupational therapist, you have likely been wondering if you should pursue a Master’s in Occupational Therapy (MOT/MSOT) or a Doctorate in Occupational Therapy (OTD). The MOT vs OTD debate has been a bit of a controversial and contentious one (at least for practicing therapists) for the last […]
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Telehealth, also known as teletherapy, is becoming an exciting new avenue for providing occupational therapy services in a variety of settings, especially once so many therapy clinics made at least a partial shift to remote work after 2020. If you aren’t entirely familiar with telehealth, what is it? Telehealth, as defined by The Center for […]
So you want to be an occupational therapist, but you still have to jump through the many hoops of applying for grad programs. One mandatory part of the process is writing a great personal statement specifically for occupational therapy school, which can be pretty intimidating when it’s time to put pen to paper. Well, I’m […]
When I was discovering occupational therapy as a career, I was very familiar with what occupational therapists did in inpatient rehab settings since I worked as an aide in one, and I was aware that OTs also worked with children in schools. I’d heard of occupational therapists working in patients’ home settings as well, but […]