I was first inspired to write this post about interventions for unilateral neglect (defined by Physiopedia as when an individual “fails to report, respond or orient to meaningful stimuli presented on the affected sides,”) after I first saw this condition during an eval when I was a fairly new OT grad. I realized that it […]
I quickly learned in occupational therapy graduate school (in my physiology and neuroscience courses) that I learn best with flow charts – when I can form a plan and visualize what steps come next. The same is true for me now when I’m treating a patient in my hand therapy setting. Regardless of how simple […]
When you’re new to working with patients affected by acquired or traumatic brain injuries, it can be challenging, exciting, and even stressful as an OT student or new occupational therapy practitioner. This is especially true if you have not been exposed to many of these types of patient or any cognitive interventions for traumatic brain […]
If you’re looking for occupational therapy group treatment ideas for your adult rehab patients (for any rehab setting), you’ve come to the right place! With group therapy becoming more commonplace in long term care, subacute and acute rehab settings, we wanted to share our favorite functional group treatment ideas that will benefit each participant. First, […]
If you’re an occupational therapy practitioner or OT student searching for occupation-based dynamic balance interventions for your adult-setting rehab patients, then this article is just for you! Occupation-based interventions are not only our bread and butter, but they also can help differentiate us from physical therapy. It can be way too easy to accidentally do […]
If you’re looking for functional, occupation-based standing tolerance activities to use in your adult rehab practice, we’ve got you covered! It goes without saying but addressing your patients’ decreased standing tolerance not only helps them increase their tolerance to performing standing ADLs (and therefore increasing their independence), but working on improving standing tolerance will also […]
Occupation-based interventions: It may seem like common sense to use these as occupational therapists. After all, our title has the word “occupation” in it, for goodness sake! Unfortunately, assembly-line therapy has reduced the use of occupation-based treatments in favor of exercises that make point of service and high productivity the main objective versus providing quality, […]
We’re so excited to feature holistic occupational therapist Linda Schiano Moriello, OTR/L, for this great article all about holistic occupational therapy. We love that research-backed holistic practices are becoming more mainstream and accepted in OT and look forward to sharing how you can incorporate holistic OT approaches in your day to day practice. Occupational therapists […]
Whether you work as an occupational therapist or COTA in home health, outpatient, acute care, rehab, or in a long term care facility, you will certainly encounter patients with a dementia diagnosis or co-morbidity. If you work primarily with older adults, this might even be a large percentage of your patients. In this article, I […]
Wow, it’s been six years since I wrote this article (when I was basically still a new OT grad)! I thought about totally reworking the whole thing, but I think it’s fun to keep it close to it’s original format to see what OT interventions worked for me “back in the day.” That being said, […]