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Handout

Odynophagia or Painful Swallowing

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AdultSLPDysphagia
This handout explains the difference between dysphagia and odynophagia, common symptoms and causes, and provides some treatment considerations. 
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Handout

Occupational Therapy During Palliative Care

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AdultOTAging
Often the goals for therapy and the goals for end of life care seem at opposite ends of a spectrum. In some instances, OT can play an integral role in end of life care, and this handout describes the ways OT is relevant in this setting.
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Clinical Reference

Occupational Therapy Student Cheat Sheet

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AdultOTBrain InjuryOrthopaedicsStroke
This tool offers a variety of information to help occupational therapy students be successful during their fieldwork rotations, including range of motion norms, assistance levels, manual muscle testing, goal writing basics, and more.
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Handout

Nutrition Packed Smoothies for People with Dysphagia

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AdultSLPDysphagia
Are your patients on puree diets sick of applesauce, pudding, and yogurt? Smoothies offer an enormous range of options to improve taste and nutrition for people who are on altered textured diets. This 3-page visual handout offers specific smoothie ingredient options to improve intake of proteins, fats, vitamins, minerals, fiber, and to improve digestive and overall health. To be used in collaboration with a dietitian.
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Clinical Reference

Normative Vital Signs by Age

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AdultOTAgingBrain InjuryCardiovascular DiseaseStroke
This resource references the changes in normal vitals as we age. Quickly determine if your findings for temperature, pulse rate, respiration rate, and blood pressure are normal.
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Handout

Normal Cognitive Changes with Age

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AdultOTSLPAging
Many people experiencing changes with cognition question whether these changes are related to the natural aging process. This handout provides insight into latest evidence base describing the difference between dementia and cognitive-changes related to aging. Includes 7 strategies to support healthy aging in order to slow the cognitive aging process.
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Handout

IDDSI Level 5 – Minced and Moist

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AdultSLPDysphagia
This resource provides information for patients and their caregivers on this consistency’s characteristics, the reasons for recommendation/need for this consistency, ways to test it at home, and helpful recommendations for preparation.
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Handout

Health Literacy and Providing Education

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AdultOTSLPBrain InjuryStroke
All individuals have the right to access and understand the information provided by their healthcare team to make appropriate decisions and actions. This resource includes information on assessing health literacy, providing adequate education, and assessing an individual’s understanding.
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Eval Tool

Acute/Post-Acute Memory Needs Assessment

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AdultOTSLPBrain Injury
Impairment in memory and self-awareness skills are common following brain injury and/or prolonged hospitalization. This material provides questions related to acute/post-acute settings to determine a patient’s memory needs. This material can be used to assess self-awareness of memory deficits and guide discussion about external aids/internal strategies to help compensate for these difficulties.
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Therapy Material

Voicemail Inferencing Task

Print and Audio Resource — US Letter + audio files — 2 pages
AdultOTSLPAphasiaBrain Injury
Listening to voicemails can target a person’s attention, auditory short-term memory, inferences abilities. The patient can listen to the recordings or the SLP reading the transcripts for each voicemail during this task. Then they can answer the comprehension questions to target auditory short-term memory recall and make inferences with the given information.
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Clinical Reference

Creating Patient-Centered Dysphagia Goals using the SMART Framework

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AdultSLPDysphagia
This resource is not a generic list of dysphagia goals. Instead, it’s a guide to help with the critical thinking and patient collaboration necessary to identify meaningful dysphagia goals. Some examples are provided, but clinicians and patients are encouraged to use the SMART framework to support patient-centered goals.
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Eval Tool

Medication Management Evaluation

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AdultOTSLPAgingBrain InjuryDementiaStroke
This resource provides clinicians with evidence-based tools to use during treatment sessions and strategies to assist with increasing medication adherence.
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Eval Tool

Caring for Pets Screening

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AdultOTADLs/IADLs
An individual’s ability to care for their pets is an important part of returning to independent living. This tool helps to assess an individual’s personal needs for the caring for pets IADL, and provides direction for setting specific therapy goals.
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Handout HEP

Pendulum Swing Exercise

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AdultOTOrthopaedics
Pendulum swing exercises for the shoulder are commonly used during the early stages of the rehabilitation process. This handout covers when and why this exercise should be implemented, as well as how to correctly perform the exercise.
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Handout

ESTIM

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AdultOTBrain InjuryChronic PainStroke
Electrical stimulation (ESTIM) is a valuable modality that can be used to address a variety of conditions and symptoms such as treating chronic pain, improving range of motion, and retraining muscles after injury or illness. This resource covers ESTIM indications, contraindications/precautions and provides a log to keep track of individual patient parameters in order to simplify utilizing ESTIM in the clinic.
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Therapy Material

Quilt Activity for Visual Perceptual Skills

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AdultOTSLPBrain InjuryStrokeVision
This activity can be used as an intervention to target a variety of visual perceptual skills, attention, and fine motor skills. There are three graded options in order to increase the challenge as the patient progresses.
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Clinical Reference

Evidence Based Outcomes for CVA

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AdultStroke
Do you struggle to remember outcome measures specific for different conditions? This document outlines some of the best free outcome measures for individuals after stroke and lists minimal detectable change (MDC) values and minimal clinically important differences (MCID) values.
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Clinical Reference

Understanding Hoehn and Yahr

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AdultOTProgressive Neurological Conditions
This document outlines one of the most utilized outcomes to track prognosis and stage of Parkinson’s disease: the Hoehn and Yahr Classification of Disability. Use this as a handout as an educational resource to improve your patient’s health literacy, or use it to brush up on the classifications yourself.
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Eval Tool

Typical Synergy Patterns

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AdultOTBrain InjuryStroke
This document outlines common flexion and extension synergy patterns.
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Handout HEP

Flexor Tendon Glides Instruction Sheet

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AdultOTOrthopaedics
Flexor tendon glides are commonly prescribed by rehabilitation professionals who work with hand injuries. The sequence can be hard to explain in a time efficient manner. This resource outlines how to do wrist flexor tendon glides and allows for the clinician to customize the dosages of the exercise.
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