Sensing OT

ICEhould Be Golfing  The easy to make therapeutic game to help strengthen upper body muscles and increase balance. Great for people who are paraplegic and golf lovers!  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ylc3q5nx8zY

Neuronote #5 Until I Say Good-Bye by Susan Spencer-Wendel  I read  Until I Say Good-Bye , which is a memoir written by a highly awarded journalist during her battle with ALS. As I have said many times before, the best way to learn about a disease or injury is to step into that person's shoes. There is no way to truly understand what a disease like ALS is like unless you have experienced it for yourself or seen a love one suffer through it. Susan wrote this book in such an elegant way, it is hard not to develop a new found perspective from it. While reading this book, I was able to take so many different perspectives from it. I could see it from the point of view of an OT, a daughter, a friend, and a person with the disease. Susan also wrote this memoir in way that I could honestly step in her shoes and feel the emotions she was feeling. Not only did I learn so must about the disease itself, but I learned more about the perspective of someone who is terminally ill....

Using a Universal Cuff For Everyday Activities  When I first learned about a universal cuff, I thought that it was an amazing idea and adaptive tool. A universal cuff seems rather easy in theory, but I soon realized that nothing is as easy as it sounds. When I first tried to use it, I thought that it was not to bad. After about ten seconds of using it, it became a lot more difficult than I assumed it would be. The fork or pencil would slip out of the cuff, I would have to turn my whole arm certain ways to do particular actions, and I had to adapt every aspect of the activity besides just to grip aspect of it. I used a universal cuff to eat dinner, write my name, and type for one minute. I choose to do this experiment so I could understand on a first hand basis what it is like to have to use an adaptive tool to do simple tasks like eat. I am glad I did it, because it was definitely not as easy I expected it would be. As an occupational therapy student, I feel as though physical...

One of the emerging fields for occupational therapy is childhood obesity. I find this to be very important because obesity in America is becoming more and more prevalent. This is not only affecting adults, but children as well. I think part of the problem is because of parent's bad habits, as well as technology. Parents often times give their children their bad habits and almost always give them their health habits. A child is not gonna make a salad when their parents are making chicken tenders for dinner. More often than not, parent's just put their child in front of an iPad and hope they stay quite. The value of playing outside has been lost and this is something that OT's can advocate for and educate parents about. I think advocating is a major way OT's will work in this field. Children do not understand the importance of eating well and exercising if it is not taught to them. If a child's parents do not value the importance of health, the children are being set ...