RSCC Occupational Therapy Assistant Program

Really cool article about technology that helps combat pneumonia in developing and third world countries. The device, FREO2, helps use water sources as a source for energy.

This is a great article about the benefits of incooporating OT into treatment.

Information for Patients and Health Care Professionals

This is a good overview of sternal precautions after heart surgery. It includes images for proper techniques of getting out of a chair or bed without breaking any of these precautions. It also has helpful hints.

COPD is definitely something we will be seeing and it is important for us to know about the disease process.

Here is an awesome handout for our toolbox about the pursed lip breathing technique that Nicole taught us about the other day!

Article from Advance Magazine about CHF

maintaining sternal precautions.

Carolyn Baum OT Assessments - Executive Function Performance Test; Complex Task Performance Assessment (divided attention/sequencing)

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CBS Evening News video of prosthetic device

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Amputee Coalition is a national non-profit organization providing extensive resources, peer support, outreach and education to individual amputees, amputee caregivers, limb loss professionals and those dealing with the effects of limb loss.