How They Adapt
What is a reacher?
Occupational Therapy got its name from its focus on helping patients with everyday activities --or "______"
What is Occupations?
The acronym COTA
This type of modification or assessment provided by OT practitioners reduce functional decline and improve safety within the home
What is a home modification or home assessment?
People use this device to put on their socks more easily despite pain and physical limitations.
What is a sock aid?
These two settings are where one may find an Occupational Therapist (OT)?
What is schools, hospital, nursing home, outpatient, etc.?
AOTA
What is American Occupational Therapy Association?
They help patients improve how far a joint moves without assistance, also known as
What is Active ROM?
This item is essential for anyone who has difficulty bending, containing a plastic-coated combination hook/pusher that assists in putting on shirts and jackets and jackets, pulling up slacks or skirts, or removing socks.
What is a dressing stick?
Sometimes confused with OT, this service deals with "Pain, Strength, Joint ROM, Endurance, and Gross Motor Functioning," rather than "Fine Motor Skills, Visual-Perceptual Skills, Cognitive Skills, and Sensory-Processing Deficits."
A common diagnosis treated by the OT team, this is the formal name for a Stroke
What is a CVA?
They perform this type of activity regularly when the CNA does not feel like doing it
What is a shower?
People use this short-handled tool inside the back of a snug-fitting shoe that flares into a longer spoon-like head.
What is a shoe horn?
Dynamic Duos
OTs and COTAs
One who specializes in Lymphedema uses this one
What is CLT?
An ADL and an iADL
What is ____________?
People with limited range of motion use this device to firmly hold their toilet paper, allowing them to wipe their rear end thoroughly.
What are tongs?
What were the roles of OTs in World War I?
What is help for wounded soliders and reconstruction aids?
NBCOT
What is National Board for Certification in Occupational Therapy?
OT and OTAs trained in this type of assessment, can assist when the SLP is not also performing this task
What is Cognitive?
Much like this extinct therapod dinosaur, Occupational Therapists with their Adaptive Equipment are unstoppable?
What is a T-Rex?