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Disease Modifying Therapies for Multiple Sclerosis

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AdultOTSLPMultiple Sclerosis
This handout provides an overview of disease modifying therapies (DMTs) to help manage the progression of Multiple Sclerosis (MS) and their potential side effects. Occupational therapists need to be aware of these side effects and how they can design interventions to help clients with MS manage the side effects and maintain safety and independence when […]
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Discourse Analysis and Aphasia Treatment

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AdultSLPAphasia
This handout accompanies the course: An Introduction to Discourse Analysis and Discourse-Level Treatment for Aphasia. The handout provides a visual of the Aphasia Institute’s Life Participation Approach to Aphasia and lists analyses that do and do not require transcription from the AphasiaBank website.
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Directional Preference Sample Progressions for Low Back Pain with Radiating Pain

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AdultBack/SpineChronic PainOrthopaedics
This resource is for clients wanting to take control of back pain that is radiating down the leg. Directional preference exercise, or stretching in a direction that reduces or brings symptoms closer to your back, can be useful to help control symptoms early on during the rehabilitation process. This intervention outlines some strategies that can […]
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Dining Tools for People with Parkinson’s

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AdultOTSLPParkinson’s
This handout covers various types of dining tools people who want to compensate for Parkinson’s symptoms while dining. Features 16 pictures and labels of products currently available on the market to compensate for tremor and weak grip.
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Diffuse Axonal Injury (DAI)

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AdultOTSLPBrain Injury
A diffuse axonal injury (DAI) is a type of traumatic brain injury that is most commonly diagnosed after surviving a motor vehicle accident but can also happen following other types of traumas. This handout explains what causes a DAI, the different parts of a neuron for patients and caregivers to understand more easily, and functional […]
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Differential Diagnosis: Presbyphagia

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AdultSLPDysphagia
This handout is for SLPs performing differential diagnosis assessments for disease-related swallow impairments vs age-related swallow impairments. The handout describes the oral and motor symptomatic differences for accurate differential diagnosis.
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Differential Diagnosis: Dizziness

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AdultBalance/Vestibular
This handout is designed for therapists providing differential diagnosis information for patients experiencing dizziness. The handout compares benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV) to central nervous system nystagmus and includes a comprehensive list of differential diagnosis points, including time before symptoms start after position change, duration of symptoms, direction of nystagmus, symptoms, nausea, likelihood that symptoms […]
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Differential Diagnosis: Apraxia of Speech vs Aphasia with Phonemic Paraphasias

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AdultSLPAphasiaMotor Speech/Dysarthria/Apraxia
Language impairments after brain injury can be difficult to tease out. In particular, apraxia of speech can often present in similar ways to aphasia with phonemic paraphasias. This clinical guide is meant to help speech-language pathologists more accurately diagnose these two impairments in order to better target treatment methods.
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Types of Naming

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AdultSLPAphasia
There are different ways to elicit a target word when a person has anomia or difficulty with word-finding. This handout provides a description of four different types of naming and a worksheet to target each type of naming.
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Dietary Resource List for People Wanting to Lose Weight and Improve Health

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AdultSports and Exercise
Many people who attend physical therapy also are interested in losing weight. Losing weight in the absence of dieting is very difficult, and a combined diet/exercise approach is likely most effective. Having access to places to get started is critical to long term weight loss success. This intervention lists websites and resources that people may […]
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Diaphragmatic Breathing

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AdultOTChronic PainMental Health
Diaphragmatic breathing is an effective intervention to reduce stress and manage symptoms associated with many conditions. This handout describes the proper way of breathing, compensatory muscles used during inefficient breathing, and provides a guide to teach clients how to use their diaphragm properly.
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Diabetic Ulcers: What to Expect

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AdultOTDiabetes
Diabetic ulcers can have long lasting and significant consequences if left untreated. This handout provides general information concerning what causes diabetic ulcers, what they are, who is at risk, and how they are treated and prevented.
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Diabetic Ulcers: Footwear Guidelines

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AdultOTDiabetes
Diabetic ulcers are a complication to diabetes that can lead to infection and amputations. Providing guidelines for footwear may be beneficial to reduce the risk of developing a diabetic ulcer. This resource outlines several evidence based guidelines to reduce the risk of developing diabetic ulcers.
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Diabetic Neuropathy

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AdultOTDiabetesNervous System Conditions
Learning to manage diabetes can be overwhelming. For those newly diagnosed with diabetic neuropathy, this handout answers questions about the causes, symptoms, and treatment, as well as the role of therapy at different stages of neuropathy symptoms.
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Developing a Dementia-Friendly Approach

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AdultOTSLPDementia
This resource asists with the development to implement a dementia-friendly approach.
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Desensitization Techniques for Peripheral Nerve Injury

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AdultOTNervous System Conditions
A handout for patients experiencing hypersensitivity after a peripheral nerve injury highlighting the most effective desensitization techniques that can be performed daily by the patient at home.
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Descending Spinal Cord Tracts

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AdultOTSpinal Cord Injury
This document provides insights on the descending motor pathways and includes the voluntary motor pathways: the corticospinal tract, the corticobulbar tract, and the rubrospinal tract. Additionally, it includes the involuntary motor tracts: the vestibulospinal tract and the reticulospinal tract.
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Dementia Progression

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AdultOTSLPDementia
This resource outlines the early, middle, and late stages of dementia.
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Defensible Documentation and Medical Necessity for Physical Therapists

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Adult
It is inevitable that each year will end. The end of the year is also the time individuals are most likely to run out of healthcare dollars. This document helps prepare clinicians to document medical necessity when appropriate. It provides documentation tips and will help reduce the incidence of denials.
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