I found this pinterest page that has a bunch of different splints on it. I just thought after the lab yesterday, it was cool to see more kinds of them. Since this is a pinterest page, i am not sure if all the splints are correct in their descriptions, but I did think these were very cool to see.

This article talks about what goes into rehab for burn patients. I thought this article had some very good information. Although this article is not just specific to OT, I found it to be a very multidisciplinary approach.

I found these flash cards to help when trying to learn some of the different PAM's. Some of the flash cards doesn't pertain to our learning but I still found them very helpful for myself.

I found this study on the AJOT archives, its an old study but I just found it interesting in talking about the difference they saw in soft vs hard splints for RA patients. The overall preference for patients were the soft splints.

I found this website that talks about services provided by this company that specializes in OT for UE amputees. I found it really cool that there are centers that specialize in just this. The only downfall I see is that there is only 5 centers in the whole US.

This may be old news from almost a year ago, but i found this on the Vanderbilt website about how Dr. Michael Goldfarb has been working on robotic legs that emulates healthy limbs. It explains his research and his building of these legs. I found in the article that Dr. Goldfarb was also named one of the top 10 innovators who changed the world in 2013 for developing an exoskeleton that allows paraplegics to stand up and walk.

I just found these facts, not sure how accurate they are but since we are talking about aging I found them pretty neat. One of the facts that stood out to me was that there was a study that shows people are happiest in early 20's and then again in 70's and 80's.. It states the reason is because by that age we have built social and emotional instincts that keep us from worrying about little things.

I just thought this was an easy explanation b/w the two. It explains how adaptive technology is the adapting of existing tools or technologies, but assistive technology is just basically a broad term for the technology in general whether it be adaptive, assistive, or rehabilitative . It lists examples in the article. This just kind of helped me to understand the difference and wanted to share it.

I found these tips for maintaining health and wellness for college students. Although some of these tips won't apply to clients, I think that applying some of these techniques in our own lives could potentially help us all to become better focused on learning. We have to take care of our own bodies in order to be able to treat clients.