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Assessment and treatment of movement problems, largely through exercise and education. Key takeaways Direct access: allowed in all states in some form...
Continue Reading : A Q and A on Physical Therapy Services
Help to do the everyday activities that illness or injury has made difficult. It focuses on function rather than diagnosis, which is often what actual...
Continue Reading : A Working Checklist for Occupational Therapy
Help to do the everyday activities that illness or injury has made difficult. Key takeaways Access: usually through a doctor's order in the hospi...
Continue Reading : Occupational Therapy: Common Questions Answered
Assessment and treatment of communication and swallowing problems by a speech-language pathologist. Swallowing problems can cause chest infections and...
Continue Reading : Speech and Language Therapy: The Practical To-Do List
Assessment and treatment of communication and swallowing problems by a speech-language pathologist. Key takeaways Covers: speech, language, voice and...
Continue Reading : Speech and Language Therapy: Common Questions Answered Rebuilding capacity after a significant illness or hospital stay. Strength and fitness fall quickly with bed rest and take far longer to rebuild than...
Continue Reading : A Working Checklist for Returning to Activity After Illness
Rebuilding capacity after a significant illness or hospital stay. Key takeaways Muscle loss with bed rest: begins within days Recovery: takes substant...
Continue Reading : Answers to the Common Questions on Returning to Activity After Illness Aids that make daily activities possible or safer. Equipment fitted properly extends independence; fitted badly it causes falls. Key takeaways Cane he...
Continue Reading : Assistive Equipment: What to Do, in Order
Aids that make daily activities possible or safer. Key takeaways Cane height: handle level with the crease of your wrist when your arm hangs straight...
Continue Reading : Answers to the Common Questions on Assistive Equipment Agreeing what recovery is actually for, in terms of specific activities. Goals framed as activities rather than measurements are the ones people keep...
Continue Reading : The Setting Rehabilitation Goals Checklist: What to Do and What to Skip
Agreeing what recovery is actually for, in terms of specific activities. Key takeaways Effective goals: specific, meaningful, and measurable as an act...
Continue Reading : Setting Rehabilitation Goals: Common Questions Answered
Managing more than one long-term condition at once. Guidelines are written one condition at a time, and following several at once can produce conflict...
Continue Reading : Living with Multiple Conditions: The Practical To-Do List
Managing more than one long-term condition at once. Key takeaways Multiple chronic conditions: two or more long-term conditions at the same time How c...
Continue Reading : Living with Multiple Conditions: The Questions People Actually Ask
The day-to-day decisions a person makes about their own condition. A person with a long-term condition spends a few hours a year with clinicians and t...
Continue Reading : The Self-Management Checklist: What to Do and What to Skip
The day-to-day decisions a person makes about their own condition. Key takeaways Self-management education: proven programs exist for arthritis, diabe...
Continue Reading : Your Questions About Self-Management, Answered