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Handout

Avoiding Pressure Ulcers

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AdultOTSLPNervous System ConditionsSpinal Cord Injury
Do you have a patient who is at risk for skin breakdown? This document provides simple and effective tips and recommendations for those with the risk of integument breakdown. Send a patient or caregiver home with these strategies to better improve patient compliance and outcomes.
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Eval Tool

Cervical Proprioceptive Measurement Tool

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AdultOTBrain InjuryOrthopaedics
Concussion and cervicalgia are often accompanied by cervical proprioceptive deficits. This document creates a simple way to measure, document, and access proprioceptive deficits. The document includes instructions for performance and information needed to effectively scan into documentation.
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Handout

Three Swallowing Exercises for People with Parkinson’s

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AdultSLPDysphagiaProgressive Neurological Conditions
This handout visualizes three exercises featured in the evidence base for people with Parkinson’s, including: Expiratory muscle strength training (EMST), the Masako, and chin tuck against resistance (CTAR).
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Apple Accessibility Features for Hearing Impairments

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AdultOTSLPBrain Injury
Technology can be a wonderful thing, but often a person does not know how to make technology more accessible for a person with impairments. This material provides details regarding accessibility features and accommodations for a person with hearing impairments using Apple devices and includes instructions for setup.
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Clinical Reference

Basic Cheat Sheet for the use of Passy Muir Speaking Valve with Ventilation

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AdultSLPDysphagiaVoice
Working with the ventilation population can be initially daunting as a speech-language pathologist (SLP). This material provides a basic review of types of ventilation and ventilator settings that are important to know and understand before initiating Passy Muir speaking valve (PMV) trials. Furthermore, a review of the benefits of PMV use and collaboration with a respiratory therapist is provided.
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Therapy Material

Football Numerical Problem Solving Activity

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AdultOTSLPBrain InjuryStroke
When asking patients about their hobbies and interests to incorporate those when creating person-centered goals, a common response is “football.” This activity is made for those football lovers to target their numerical problem solving skills related to their favorite sport.
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Eval Tool Handout

How to Use the Reflux Symptom Index (RSI)

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AdultSLPDysphagia
This handout explains how laryngopharyngeal reflux (LPR) and gastroesophageal reflux (GERD) are similar and different. Then the patient can use the Reflux Symptoms Index, and the SLP will calculate the score. The SLP and patient can track the scores to see if the scores change over time with compensatory dysphagia strategies and/or the physician, including medications for symptom relief.
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Eval Tool Therapy Material

Procedural Narrative Production Task

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AdultSLPAphasia
The procedural narrative production activity is a higher-level verbal fluency task where the person is asked to explain how to complete an everyday activity or resolve a problem. There are charts with details for the SLP to consider when evaluating the procedural narrative production.
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Handout

Pushing Behavior

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AdultOTBalance/Vestibular/FallsBrain InjuryStroke
This resource provides therapists a background of pushing behavior, quick assessments, and treatment ideas.
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Handout HEP

PNF Patterns

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AdultOTNervous System ConditionsStroke
Use the proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation (PNF) patterns in this HEP to improve strength, coordination, motor control, and mobility of the upper extremity.
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Community Re-integration in a Wheelchair

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AdultOTSeating and Mobility
This resource covers different strategies to maximize independence in the community for wheelchair users. It includes topics such as navigating community obstacles, equipment for community engagement, and independence in the grocery store.
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Handout

Fair Housing Act Rules: Tools to Advocate for Clients

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AdultOTAgingHealth Management and Self AdvocacySpinal Cord Injury
This resource touches on Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and details Fair Housing Act (FHA) rules that may impact the independence of clients, and how these rules can be used to advocate for their quality of life.
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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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