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. Why […]
Today’s article is a guest post all about creating the most effective and meaningful group therapy interventions in your OT practice, written by adult rehab based occupational therapist Courtney Crabill, OTR/L. This post is not an affiliate post or a sponsored post. We are just happy to share the work Courtney has created to help […]
A large part of the population that we as occupational therapists can work with are people with low vision or impaired vision. Some patients may even start occupational therapy services because of a low vision diagnosis, but other patients may start OT for a different reason, but still have underlying vision problems that affect their […]
If you’ve already found your passion for all things vision in OT, it’s time to take a closer look at how you can incorporate vision into your occupational therapy practice. The next step will be to develop your skills assessing patients so you can feel more confident treating within the Occupational Therapy Practice Act and […]
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 […]
Chronic pain is more prevalent now than ever before, making us wonder, “What is occupational therapy’s role in chronic pain?” It is no secret that chronic pain is a complex condition which can make many OTs feel daunted about assessing and treating chronic pain in their work setting. It is estimated that globally 20% of […]
Patients are placed on isolation precautions to prevent the spread of infection to other patients and healthcare workers, or to keep them safe from an infection if they are immunocompromised. When a patient is on isolation precautions, they will typically have to remain in their rooms with limited equipment available for you to use during […]
Occupational therapists and COTAs specialize in a wide variety of practice areas. When it comes to sensory treatments, handwriting, and ADL retraining, we are the undisputed experts in the field. But for some reason, there is an entire aspect of our treatments that is widely under-utilized: manual therapy. Manual therapy includes a broad range of […]
Scaffolding may be a term you are not familiar with in a therapy setting, but it is most likely a technique you are using in some capacity. While scaffolding is most commonly used in reference to pediatric occupational therapy, scaffolding techniques have a wide range of uses and can benefit just about anyone. What is […]
When I originally wrote this post on productivity way back as a new OT grad in 2016, I thought that being a productive occupational therapist was one of the top things that made me a “good” OT. I now know that being being productive is not the most important thing we need to focus on […]