Clinical Resources : Therapy Insights

Clinical Reference

Medication-Induced Dysphagia

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AdultSLPDysphagia

This quick reference guide refers to common medications that may cause dysphagia.

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Clinical Reference

Common Cardiopulmonary Medications

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AdultOTCardiovascular DiseaseRespiratory

This resource highlights some of the most common cardiopulmonary medication types and provides insight on how those medications may affect treatment.

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Clinical Reference

Vocal Fold Function

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AdultSLPVoice

This resource differentiates asthma and vocal fold dysfunction, laryngospasm vs vocal fold dysfunction, and lists key features of various vocal fold disorders.

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Eval Tool

Quick Informal Assessment: Writing Expression

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AdultSLPAphasia

This quick, informal assessment provides information about ability to write basic personal information, numbers, words, phrases, and sentences.

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Quick Informal Assessment: Reading Comprehension

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AdultSLPAphasiaBrain Injury

This quick, informal assessment allows therapists to get a quick snapshot of single-word, sentence-level, and short and long paragraph level reading comprehension abilities. Does not require any additional materials to complete.

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Handout

Quick Guide to Proper Wheelchair Positioning

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AdultOTSeating and Mobility

This visual guide serves as a quick reference for determining proper wheelchair positioning. A great piece to post in a wheelchair storage room and/or use for caregiver education as an initial screening tool to determine if therapy intervention may be warranted.

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Eval Tool

Quick Eval Checklist for SLPs

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AdultSLPAphasiaBrain InjuryDysphagiaStrokeVoice

This 1-page note-sheet captures information required for initial evaluation of someone entering a rehab facility, including basic information about swallowing, speech/language, voice, and cognitive abilities.

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Clinical Reference

Questions to Consider When Recommending Adaptive Strategies

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AdultOTADLs/IADLsAging

Occupational therapists are skilled at adaptation, however, sometimes clinicians go straight into recommending adaptive strategies without identifying what will be best for the patient/caregiver. This handout provides important questions to ask when considering the use of adaptive strategies with neurodegenerative disorders.

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Questions to Ask About Incontinence

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AdultOTBowel/BladderWomen's Health

This resource provides questions to ask clients about incontinence, types of incontinence and normal bladder habits to assist in your evaluation.

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Puree Flavor POWER! 27 Ways to Get Creative with Mashed Potatoes

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AdultSLPDysphagia

Being on a pureed diet can be an isolating, degrading, depressing situation. This calls for creativity! There are so many ways to add flavor to mashed potatoes- make it a dessert, make it spicy, make it Thai, Indian, Mexican cuisine… there are no limits! Here are 27 ideas to get kitchen staff, patients, and families inspired.

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Clinical Reference

Pulmonary and Respiratory Diagnoses: Acute Versus Chronic

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AdultOTSLPRespiratory

This resource discusses many common respiratory diagnoses, categorized between acute vs. chronic. Interventions and education are significantly different when the client is looking at long term management of a diagnosis vs. short term difficulty with expected improvement back to prior level of function.

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Pseudobulbar Affect

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AdultOTSLPBrain InjuryStroke

Pseudobulbar affect (PBA) is a form of emotional lability that is observed as sudden, frequent, and unpredictable outbursts of crying and/or laughing. This handout can help educate patients and their caregivers about what it is, what it isn’t, areas of the brain that cause it, what to do if a person has it, and how to access a lability scale that can be helpful when referring.

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Prevention of Pressure Sores

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AdultOTOrthopaedics

Prevention is the key when it comes to pressure sores. This document describes ways to decrease risk as well as some tips if a sore has already developed.

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Prognosis After Brain Injury

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AdultOTSLPBrain Injury

This resource describes prognosis of improvement and recovery following brain injury.

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Problem-Solving Approach to Reduce Dementia Related Behaviors

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AdultOTSLPDementia

This piece describes challenging behaviors and how the environment, caregiver, and person with dementia may trigger an increase of behaviors. Also provided is a non-pharmacological problem-solving approach to reduce or eliminate dementia related behaviors.

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Handout

Prevention of Falls from Bed

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Adult

This resource explains common reasons that clients fall from bed and utilizes a detailed and thorough approach to environmental, caregiver, and client interventions to reduce the risks.

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Handout

Pressure Sores

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AdultOTOrthopaedics

Inform patients them of the risks of pressure sores and improve understanding of the importance of avoiding the injury.

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Handout

Presbyphonia: The Aging Voice

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AdultSLPVoice

This handout explains presbyphonia, or “the aging voice,” what specific structures of the body change, and how to seek medical treatment if the person’s quality of life is being affected by these vocal changes.

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Clinical Reference

Precautions and Contraindications to Spinal Manual Therapy

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AdultOrthopaedics

Manual therapy is frequently used to treat spine related pain by therapists, osteopaths and chiropractors. This resource outlines contraindications to spinal manual therapy and is a helpful quick resource to review when in doubt about using manual therapy.

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Post Traumatic Amnesia

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AdultOTSLPBrain Injury

This handout helps explain what PTA is, describes characteristics of a person in a PTA state, length of PTA state with a correlation of severity of brain injury, and ways to help a person in a PTA state.

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