When a person experiences a tendon injury in the hand that affects the ability to flex or extend the hand properly and in a safe way, he or she likely will have a difficult time completing everyday tasks, such as bathing, dressing, grooming, eating, using the bathroom, and attending to chores at home and at work. This could be a wonderful handout to someone who has had surgery or experiencing these same issues.

Surgery to replace a damaged hip joint offers many people the opportunity to regain lost function and to return to daily activities with increased ease and comfort, but the 6-8 week recovery period requires many changes in the way you carry out your daily activities. This could be a handout to a patient who has undergone a THA to get back into their activities safely.

A major focus of occupational therapy is rehabilitation related to impairments of the upper extremity (i.e., shoulder, elbow, forearm, wrist, hand). This is a good article on the role of OT in this type setting.

I had actually been searching for something like this because I am interested in some work with wounded warrior, and this gave me lots of great information on the combat amputee. This is a powerpoint on the combat amputee, and shows some really neat progressive pictures and explanations!

Tons of information of UE amputation! Might be a good handout to give to a patient on educating how you are going to help them throughout the road to recovery. It also talks about prosthesis training when you get to that point in therapy.

This article is talking how we should collaborate with all disciplines in the acute rehab setting to benefit the patient to it's fullest!

This article covers the importance of occupational therapy and upper limb prosthesis. It gives a personal scenario of a man born without a right hand, and the impact OT can have on this population.

"A previous fall is one of the strongest risk factors for falling again..." Very beneficial read pertaining to what we have covered over the semester!

This is an article on assistive technology devices and OT! The goal of occupational therapy is to enhance or enable meaningful participation in the occupations (activities) important to the clients served. Therefore, technology is a component of providing occupational therapy services across practice arenas.

We talked so much about this in class! This interprofessional team got together to make this house a home by helping them with aging in place!

Sometimes we are thinking consistently about the patient and not so much about the therapist, the body mechanics used, and the ergonomics to help prevent major problems later on!

Super interesting! This article gives insight on those patients who have incontinence issues and helpful hints on how to get them to therapy even though they are afraid of having an accident! This could be super helpful one day!

This was a neat article on low vision patients and keeping their needs met through occupational therapy. Very interesting read!

This article is cool to implement the OT brain in designing smart technology in the home so that it benefits the individuals and the problems they are facing.

This is a really cool article on what the therapists role is in driver retirement and helping with finding new ways of transportation for those who need to discontinue driving.

About a year ago, Zac Vawter climbed all 103 flights of stairs of the Willis Tower in Chicago. On its own, this accomplishment would be pretty unremarkable, but Vawter, who lost his leg four years ago during a motorcycle accident, happened climb more than 2,000 steps while wearing a prosthetic leg.. This is so awesome! I love searching to see where the future of prosthetics is going.

Thought this was super interesting! A new study has found that people who have been diagnosed with parkinson's disease have found a different bacteria level in the stomach. My thoughts are... will this maybe move us forward to finding a cure? Or understanding more of the onset and why it is caused?

This very much pertains to our sex lesson and how important it is that people with spinal cord injuries still realize they can still participate. Of course we will still remain in our scope of practice with the Plissit model, but this definitely gives some good ideas and maybe a good handout to give someone with these types of questions!

Head injury refers to trauma to the head. This may or may not include injury to the brain. This is really good to go to that gives you a visual on Closed Head injuries (CHI). This allowed a much better understanding of what actually happens.

We could all use a little help with our documentation right? Found this link on pinterest with some great resources to help with our wording in our documentation. We want to sound professional and educated so we get billed right? This really helped me out some!