I’m excited to share with you all my first interview for My OT Spot with Isaac Bishof. Isaac is a PhD candidate at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, and his focus is on Alzheimer’s disease research. Isaac is studying how a group of proteins influence Alzheimer’s disease. He and his team are looking at the molecular mechanism of […]
Lately, it seems like life’s stresses have been kicking into over drive. With work and life being extra crazy, I decided I needed to figure out ways to calm my mind and maintain a positive outlook, pronto! While meditation is awesome and definitely recommended (check out the free Calm app for this), I found that I just […]
Family education: One of the most important aspects of occupational therapy in the rehab setting. With such a high level of importance comes the big responsibility to remember everything. As a student or new grad, that can feel pretty scary. When I was new at family education, I would get super nervous around a patient’s family […]
When I started working in inpatient rehab, I felt totally clueless to all the conditions I was seeing. My favorite and most-used resource during that time was the Quick Reference Guide to Occupational Therapy by Kathlyn L. Reed. It has been massively useful at times when I need to look up something very specific fast. I use this book regularly and […]
Unless you’ve been living off the grid, you may have heard of this silly Pokemon Go game. If you haven’t, check out the first few minutes of this video on YouTube. You also may have even seen the news article about Occupational Therapists using Pokemon Go as an intervention in Oklahoma. After reading the article, […]
Caregiver burnout, caregiver stress, and caregiver exhaustion. Whatever you choose to call it, caregiver burnout among all settings and diagnoses is unfortunately a very real and very common phenomenon. It not only affects caregivers’ mental health but their physical health as well. Studies show that at this time, 43.5 million people (or 18%) of the U.S. […]
The upper body ergometer – or as we usually call it the UBE or “arm bike” for short – has been causing a bit of a stir in the field of Occupational Therapy lately in various Facebook groups and other online forums. Why, you may ask? It’s because it isn’t exactly the most functional, meaningful, […]
You always want to be sure that what you’re working on with your patients requires truly skilled occupational therapy and also provides them with the best possible outcome. We also need to ensure our services are skilled and medically necessary; that they require an OT to complete the intervention (we want to avoid a denial at all costs!). […]
I often ask myself this very question when I see a new patient. Every OT has those days where you have a tougher time than usual figuring out what interventions to do with your patient. I use the interventions in this post when I feel like switching things up for my current patients in order […]
Okay, so I totally get that we as OT’s have a great average national salary coming in at approximately $78,810 according to U.S. News Careers. But coming out of school with $90,000+ in massive student loan debt plus the fact a lot of that is taken out for taxes means it can still feel like […]