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What Are the Contraindications Associated With Electrical Stimulation Therapy?

Amy Friedl, MS, OTR/L

May 15, 2024

What are the contraindications associated with electrical stimulation therapy?   Read More

 


What are the Budapest Criteria for Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS)?

Janice Rocker, OTD, OTR/L, CHT, CEAS

May 15, 2023

What are the Budapest Criteria for Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS)?   Read More

   


How Do We Make Treatment More Client Centered For Pediatric Clients?

Valeri Calhoun, MS, OTR/L, CHT

December 1, 2022

How do we make treatment more client centered for pediatric clients?   Read More

   


How Do You Perform Scar Massage After A Mastectomy?

Abi Roxana Guerra, PT, DPT, CLT-ALM, Board Certified Clinical Specialist in Oncologic Physical Therapy

April 1, 2022

How do you perform scar massage after a mastectomy?   Read More

   


What Is Environmental Press With Pediatric Constraint Induced Movement Therapy?

Mary Rebekah Trucks, OTR/L, Dory Ainsworth Wallace, MS, OTR/L

June 20, 2016

What is environmental press with pediatric constraint induced movement therapy?   Read More

 


Do You Repeat Activities With Sensory-Enhanced Pediatric Constraint Induced Movement Therapy?

Mary Rebekah Trucks, OTR/L, Dory Ainsworth Wallace, MS, OTR/L

June 13, 2016

Do you repeat activities with sensory-enhanced pediatric constraint induced movement therapy?   Read More

 


What Are Some Common Comorbidities That You Often See With A Prosthesis?

Debra Latour, OTD, M.Ed. Advanced Practice of Occupational Therapy, OTR/L

October 19, 2015

What are some common comorbidities that you often see with a prosthesis?   Read More


How Often Should a Person Be Re-Evaluated or Refitted for a New Prosthesis?

Debra Latour, OTD, M.Ed. Advanced Practice of Occupational Therapy, OTR/L

October 12, 2015

How often should a person be re-evaluated or refitted for a new prosthesis?   Read More

 


Do Any Of The Prostheses Have The Ability To Use Touch Screen Technology Such As With An iPad?

Debra Latour, OTD, M.Ed. Advanced Practice of Occupational Therapy, OTR/L

October 5, 2015

Do any of the prostheses have the ability to use touch screen technology such as with an iPad?   Read More


What is an Orthosis?

Jared Howell, MS, CPO, LPO

September 22, 2015

What is an orthosis?   Read More

   


How do we perform sensory re-education after a nerve injury?

Rebecca Neiduski, Ph.D., OTR/L, CHT

November 25, 2014

How do we perform sensory re-education after a nerve injury?   Read More


What are the sympathetic changes that we typically observe after nerve injury?

Rebecca Neiduski, Ph.D., OTR/L, CHT

November 11, 2014

What are the sympathetic changes that we typically observe after nerve injury?   Read More


Phases of a Painful Sensation

Belkis Landa-Gonzalez, Ed.D., OTR/L

August 25, 2014

What are the phases of a pain sensation?   Read More

    


The DASH Versus the QuickDASH

Sue Dahl-Popolizio, DBH, OTR/L, CHT

May 12, 2014

Which version do you prefer, the DASH or the QuickDASH?   Read More

  


Use of Compression Garments with Lymphedema

Amy Pannullo, PT, DPT, WCS, CLT, ATC, Kirsten Wightman Krell, PT, DPT, CLT

April 23, 2014

Can you review the use of compression garments with patients with lymphedema?   Read More

 


Pediatric Splinting with Tape

Rebecca Neiduski, Ph.D., OTR/L, CHT

February 17, 2014

Does the use of tape with splinting in pediatrics irritate their skin?   Read More

   


Splinting Material Characteristics Appropriate for Fractures

Rebecca Neiduski, Ph.D., OTR/L, CHT

February 3, 2014

What splinting material characteristics are appropriate to use with fractures?   Read More

  


Principles of Shoulder Impingement Treatment Applied to Hemiplegia

Ann Porretto-Loehrke, DPT, PT, CHT, COMT

September 13, 2013

Can some treatment principles for adhesive capsulitis and shoulder impingement be applied to hemiplegia?   Read More

   


Pain as a Contraindication for Constraint Induced Movement Therapy

Veronica T. Rowe, PhD, OTR/L, CBIST

August 22, 2013

Is shoulder pain or pain as a result of spasticity a contraindication for CIMT?   Read More

  


Core Strengthening for Upper Limb Amputees

Barton Bishop, DPT, SCS, CKTI, CSCS

July 25, 2013

How would you perform core strengthening with upper limb amputees? Would you use techniques similar to the weight shifting techniques that you demonstrated?   Read More

  


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