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Clinical Reference

Contraindications for Exercise

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AdultOTSports and Exercise
Do you work with a vulnerable population? Do you struggle to remember important blood values or vital abnormalities? This document lists the contraindications for exercise so that you don’t have to memorize them. Keep it close to your exercise equipment for fast and easy reference.
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Clinical Reference

Medical Abbreviations Shorthand

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AdultOTSLP
Documentation is rarely anyone’s favorite part of healthcare. This document helps you quickly decipher acronyms used in others documentation and more efficiently write your own documentation. Post it next to your computer as a fast and easy reference or provide it as a reference for student clinicians to help them document more efficiently.
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Handout

How Important Are Imaging Scans?

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AdultOTChronic Pain
People with pain frequently undergo imaging scans. These can be useful in the right context, but can also create a lot of anxiety for people who learn they have issues such as “disc degeneration”. This handout is useful to alleviate some of the anxiety that can accompany imaging scans.
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Handout HEP

Evidence Based Core Exercises for Scoliosis

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AdultOTOrthopaedics
Do you wonder which exercises are best for people with scoliosis? This exercise intervention outlines two simple exercises that can be utilized as part of a home program for people with scoliosis.
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Handout

Your Whole Body Rehabilitation Therapy Team

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AdultOTSLPBrain InjurySpinal Cord InjuryStroke
Speech, occupational, and physical therapists make a powerful interdisciplinary team that works together with patients to make recovery possible. This handout is designed to help patients, family, and staff understand the unique and interrelated roles that each discipline encompasses.
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Clinical Reference Eval Tool

Yale Swallow Protocol

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AdultSLPDysphagia
The Yale Swallow Protocol (YSP) is a screening tool for swallowing. The person being screened either passes or fails, identifying individuals who would benefit from a more thorough evaluation of all aspects of swallowing function. This resource provides evidence regarding the sensitivity and specificity of the YSP and provides steps for completion and determination of pass/fail for appropriate recommendations to be made.
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Therapy Material

Written Expression Tasks

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AdultSLPAphasia
This therapy task features two functional tasks, the first one targeting single words and the second task targeting sentence level production.
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Clinical Reference Eval Tool

Wrist Extensor Compartments Anatomy and Tendinopathy Considerations

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AdultOTOrthopaedics
Wrist extensor tendinopathies are a less often encountered diagnosis in rehabilitation settings. It can be difficult to determine the best course of action when evaluating the dorsal wrist tendons. This evaluation tool outlines the location of different extensor tendon compartments in the hand and common pathologies seen in each compartment.
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Handout

Working Memory and Adaptive Strategies

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AdultOTSLPBrain InjuryDementia
Working memory is an essential part of everyday short term memory. Finding strategies for adapting to the loss of this executive function can mitigate declines associated with early stage dementia and improve independence with completion of everyday skills.
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Therapy Material

Workbook: Impact of Mental Health on Daily Routines

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AdultOTMental Health
This resource is for clients working through a mental health diagnosis such as anxiety or depression. Gives prompts for writing down questions, areas of difficulty, impacts of diagnoses, and prioritizing wants and needs. May be a good introduction to journaling for those with anxiety or depression, serves as a reminder of the people in a person’s support system, and guides OT intervention and plan of care in a way that prioritizes function and mental health.
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Handout

Word-Finding Strategies

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AdultSLPAphasia
This handout visualizes 9 strategies patients can use when they get stuck and can’t find the word they want. Pair this handout with therapy tasks targeting word-finding.
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Therapy Material

Word Finding Tables

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AdultSLPAphasia
A word-finding task based on categories and alphabet.
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Therapy Material

Word Association Web

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AdultSLPAphasia
This activity has a variety of words in a web format in which a patient has to generate a target word that is associated with the two words that it is sandwiched between.
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Handout

Who Needs Speech Therapy? The Scope of Speech-Language Pathology

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AdultSLP
Handout that describes the broad scope of speech-language pathology, including all ages and all phases. Includes a limited list of diagnoses and signs/symptoms treated by SLPs.
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Handout

Wheelchair Management and Propulsion

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AdultOTSeating and Mobility
This resource provides patient training/education regarding the basics of wheelchair management. Includes locking and unlocking brakes, efficient propulsion techniques with hands and/or feet, postural exercises, and self repositioning techniques. May be utilized as a handout for single patient training/education intervention as well.
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Eval Tool

Wheelchair Fitting Measurement Form

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AdultOTSeating and Mobility
Listing measures for a wheelchair can be hard to document. This page provides a single place to document all of the appropriate measures for a wheelchair seating assessment.
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Clinical Reference

Wheelchair Fitting Considerations

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AdultOTSeating and Mobility
This document describes the fitting measures and helps you identify common problems with the fit of a wheelchair.
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Handout

Wheelchair Comfort: Air-Filled Cushion Inflation

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AdultOTSeating and Mobility
This resource visualizes how to properly create an air-filled cushion in order to optimize comfort for patients who spend most of their time in a wheelchair. Includes evidence base related to ulcer sores and step-by-step instructions on how to properly inflate cushions.
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