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AdultOTSLPBrain Injury
This handout provides ten compensatory strategies to help support executive function skills after a brain injury.
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AdultOTSLPBrain Injury
This handout lists appropriate strategies and tips for caregivers and/or staff trying to improve or manage difficult behavior and personality changes after a brain injury.
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AdultOTSpinal Cord InjuryStroke
This handout helps patients visualize neuro-muscular electrical stimulation (NMES) as used to treat post-operative muscle strengthening. The handout includes a description of NMES, its benefits, and what to expect during a session. Includes tips for patients on how to help create a beneficial NMES therapy session.
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AdultOTOrthopaedics
This handout outlines what may cause a stiff knee after total knee replacement, strategies that may help, and what patients can expect if they have this problem.
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AdultOTCardiovascular DiseaseOrthopaedics
This guide to sternal precautions is designed for patient and caregiver training, and includes graphic and written instruction and current research. The handout also includes alternatives that may be discussed with a surgeon if there is a concern about dependence on caregivers, muscle atrophy, fear-avoidance, or memory impairment that will reduce adherence to precautions.
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AdultOTMental Health
This OT intervention includes ways to reduce anxiety for purposes of incorporation into a holistic plan of care. Gives concrete strategies to incorporate into daily life. May also be a resource for caregivers or even clinicians who feel burned out or need positive coping strategies during stressful times.
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AdultOTSLPDementia
This handout helps teach strategies and inspire discussion with caregivers and families of clients recently diagnosed with dementia. Includes strategies for improving wayfinding skills, creating visual cues, discussing future problems, and promoting safety within the client’s current environment.
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AdultOTSpinal Cord Injury
This document is a home program for individuals post spinal cord injury who have shoulder pain. These activities can easily be performed at home with little assistance from a medical provider.
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AdultOTSeating and MobilitySpinal Cord Injury
This resource visualizes the 4 stages of pressure sores.
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AdultOTSLPADLs/IADLsBrain InjuryProgressive Neurological ConditionsStroke
This handout provides a brief explanation of the “spoon theory” metaphor used to describe the amount of mental or physical energy a person has available for daily activities. This handout can be used to describe and apply the theory with patients and then as a visual reminder.
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AdultOTSLPBrain InjuryStroke
Many individuals with a brain injury may desire to return to work. This visual and verbal problem solving/reasoning task creates safety awareness discussions within real-life work environments.
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AdultOTSpinal Cord Injury
This resource cover the different spinal cord injury syndromes and their presentations.
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AdultSLPSpinal Cord Injury
This resource provides basic education regarding spinal cord injuries and what level of injuries may require rehabilitation from an SLP.
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AdultOTSpinal Cord Injury
A visual guide to spinal cord injury levels with their respective physiology and functional abilities, explanation of bowel protocols, and an overview of the American Spinal Cord Association (ASIA) scale of spinal cord impairment.
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AdultSLP
Simple door sign for uninterrupted therapy sessions.
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AdultSLP
Template of speech therapy appointment cards. 3 per card with room to write name, room number, date, time, SLP’s name, and special notes.
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AdultSLPBrain InjuryStroke
This material describes why an SLP may be consulted to work with a person who has had a lesion in their cerebellum.
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AdultSLPBrain InjuryStroke
This handout provides written education on the basal ganglia including signs of dysfunction, diseases of the basal ganglia, and why a person may benefit from speech therapy with a lesion in this area of the brain.
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AdultSLPMotor Speech/Dysarthria/Apraxia
Dysarthria can make it difficult for others to understand a person’s speech. These specific strategies will help improve speech intelligibility for the person with dysarthria. This can be hung up on the wall to be an external memory aid to use these strategies.
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AdultSLPBrain Injury
Social media use is an important area to evaluate after a brain injury because of the many different thinking and communication skills required to be safe on the internet and interact positively with others. This handout helps guide the discussion about how the person with a brain injury uses social media throughout their day.
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