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This month is best known in the PT community as National Physical Therapy Month, not National Squirrel Awareness Month
What is October?
This month is best known in the OT community as National Occupation Therapy Month, not National Adopt-a-Greyhound Month
What is April?
This month is best known in the SLP community as National Speech-Language-Hearing Month, not No-Mow Month
What is May?
This city is Corewell Health's headquarters
What is Grand Rapids?
mAx2
What is Max Assist of 2?
This assessment can help provide objective data about the severity of balance deficits with bending, turning, and standing, and is useful to help determine if a patient is at an increased risk of falls.
What is the Berg Balance Scale?
These 5 tools are essential in an OTs ADL bag
What are a sock aid, a reacher, a dressing stick, a shoehorn, and a handled bath sponge.
#1 primary medical diagnosis of acute care patients who need SLP services
What is stroke?
The merger between these two major healthcare organizations created Corewell Health in 2022
What are Beaumont Health and Spectrum Health?
ADLs
What are Activities of Daily Living?
This landmark year required all new PTs have a doctoral degree in physical therapy.
What is 2020?
OTs and PTs alike use this scoring method to assign a value to each of six basic activities to establish a progressive mobility plan and identify a patient's readiness to go home
What is 6 Clicks?
Timing, strength, coordination, range of motion, and sensation are all important for this SLP focus
What is normal swallowing?
Corewell Health has 65,000+ employees across the organization, about 10,000 more than this neighboring city just outside of Grand Rapids
What is Kentwood (population 54,300)?
TKA
What is Total Knee Arthroplasty?
A patient with vertigo can benefit from physical therapy by doing these exercises with their therapist
What are the Epley maneuver, gaze stabilization, and balance exercises like weight shifting and the tandem stance?
A patient with Parkinson's Disease could benefit from Occupational Therapy by utilizing this tool for eating and writing.
What are foam grip tubes?
These two areas of the brain are essential for language processing and speech production
What are Wernicke's Area and Broca's Area?
This street just north of the Medical Mile will be renamed Corewell Drive, in honor of the success of the organization
What is Fairbanks Street?
ASHA
What is American Speech-Language-Hearing Association?
A patient with this diagnosis would need physical therapy services for symptoms like foot drop, muscle atrophy in the lower legs, tingling, and numbness.
What is Peripheral Neuropathy?
A patient with this diagnosis would need occupational therapy services for symptoms like debilitating fatigue, spasticity and fluctuating muscle tone, and balance impairments.
What is Multiple Sclerosis?
A patient with this diagnosis could have problems with fine motor skills, coordination, and have harsh sounding speech
What is Ataxic Dysarthria?
This pediatric nephrologist and Universidad del Rosario alumn was recently named the President of Corewell Health - West Michigan
Who is Alejandro Quiroga, MD?
BE FAST
What is Balance, Eyes, Face, Arms, Speech, Time?