Use the proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation (PNF) patterns in this HEP to improve strength, coordination, motor control, and mobility of the upper extremity.
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.
This handout explains the constraint induced movement therapy approach, including appropriate diagnoses, protocols, outcomes and benefits, and where to find continuing education on constraint induced movement therapy. The handout is targeted for patients, families, and caregiving support staff.
This handout includes overview of a cerebellar stroke including symptoms, causes, statistics, and treatment, to use for client, family, and caregiver education.
Improve carry-over and compensate for memory impairments with this weekly memory journal. Includes space for physical, occupational, and speech therapists to write down daily therapy activities, progress, and recommendations.
Our brains and bodies need water to function and stay healthy. This handout explains how water is used throughout the body and provides various facts to inspire drinking more water. Also includes some warning signs of dehydration.
This activity is a real-world scenario where patients are provided with six audio and/or written voicemail messages and a weekly calendar in which they have to plan and organize their week. Decisions on which day to schedule an activity may have to be made based on other activities already scheduled.
This table-top activity is a fun way to target this important skill. Alternative treatment options and graded modifications for implementing the task are included.
This handout explains the difference between visual neglect and visual field cut. It provides information about how they are different and ways to distinguish them. There are also some suggestions for treatment. Recommended for patients and their family to understand the difference between these two similar conditions with divergent treatment recommendations.
Visual closure skills are important for how we perceive our environment. This activity provides three methods for addressing visual closure deficits by having the patient match partial parts of an image to a whole, as well as select the correct partial piece of an image given multiple choices.