Have you found that your special needs patient or child has difficulty riding comfortably in a car? Do you dread long car trips for this reason? Traveling safely with a special needs child or teenager can be challenging. Whether you're a parent, a therapist, or other medical professional, your special needs children and teenagers deserve to travel in security and comfort like any...
Perhaps you've traveled in one of the countries where bidets are used to clean intimate body areas. A jet of cool or warm water cleans the user after he or she tends to that most personal of businesses. Feeling clean and refreshed, the user goes about with a renewed sense of confidence.
While bidets are available here in the US, toilet paper or cleansing wipes are the most common methods for tidy...
The significance of muscle flexibility, movement, and strength in one-time and recurring workplace injuries is not lost on occupational therapists. Muscle movement is integral to the healing process from an injury. Muscle flexibility is important for the nagging pains associated with repetitive injuries such as carpal tunnel syndrome. Regardless of an injury's severity, muscles m...
Shanesh offers its COLORS Applications for Autism. COLORS delivers extended evidence-based therapy, such as Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA), for special needs education, children with learning disabilities, and people with autism or autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The effects of ASD include impaired verbal communication and social interaction. These effects are benefited by ...
The earliest recorded mention of a wheel chair dates back to 6th century China from an inscription on a stone slate. No one really knows what it was made of - possibly wood or bamboo - but in all likelihood it wasn't the most comfortable contraption ever created for man to sit in, or at least not for long periods of time.
Since that rather inauspicious beginning, the art of mobility has com...
Computers have become such a ubiquitous part of our lives today that it's hard to imagine how we ever lived without them. And yet there are many for whom the use of a computer is a struggle and in some cases entirely out of reach, due to physical disability. This is what the EyeGuide™ Assist from Grinbath is designed to remedy.
In a nutshell, the EyeGuide™ Assist is an adjust...
Every occupational therapist needs to have assessment tools that can provide valid, reliable and predictable information that will help determine a patient's social or cognitive level, and that will help the therapist to chart a course of treatment and track changes over time. The Lowenstein Occupational Therapy Cognitive Assessment (LOTCA™ ) battery is used to assess adults with neurological...
It's easy to take a daily living activity such as climbing stairs for granted. However, due to illness, such as cardiopulmonary issues, neurological conditions including MS, diabetic neuropathy and strokes, age-related wear and tear like arthritis and balance problems, or accidents resulting in reduced mobility, the ability to move freely between the floors of one's own home becomes difficult, if ...
Sometimes it seems that the most innocuous situation can turn into a most trying time. One example is getting out of a car. Getting in and out of a car is akin to squatting, balancing on one leg, bending at the waist while lowering the head and using different muscle groups with the apex of the muscle strain being on the knee, hips and the twisting lower back. Doing this daily ...
Work hardening enables a patient to gain strength and endurance through exercise therapy in an environment that simulates his or her workplace.
For therapists starting or enhancing a work hardening program and wanting to do so easily and affordably, Rehabmart offers two packages of equipment made by Bailey Manufacturing. Both feature wooden components made from naturally finishe...
Have you found that your special needs patient or child has difficulty riding comfortably in a car? Do you dread long car trips for this reason? Traveling safely with a special needs child or teenager can be challenging. Whether you're a parent, a therapist, or other medical professional, your special needs children and teenagers deserve to travel in security and comfort like any...
Perhaps you've traveled in one of the countries where bidets are used to clean intimate body areas. A jet of cool or warm water cleans the user after he or she tends to that most personal of businesses. Feeling clean and refreshed, the user goes about with a renewed sense of confidence.
While bidets are available here in the US, toilet paper or cleansing wipes are the most common methods for tidy...
The significance of muscle flexibility, movement, and strength in one-time and recurring workplace injuries is not lost on occupational therapists. Muscle movement is integral to the healing process from an injury. Muscle flexibility is important for the nagging pains associated with repetitive injuries such as carpal tunnel syndrome. Regardless of an injury's severity, muscles m...
Shanesh offers its COLORS Applications for Autism. COLORS delivers extended evidence-based therapy, such as Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA), for special needs education, children with learning disabilities, and people with autism or autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The effects of ASD include impaired verbal communication and social interaction. These effects are benefited by ...
The earliest recorded mention of a wheel chair dates back to 6th century China from an inscription on a stone slate. No one really knows what it was made of - possibly wood or bamboo - but in all likelihood it wasn't the most comfortable contraption ever created for man to sit in, or at least not for long periods of time.
Since that rather inauspicious beginning, the art of mobility has com...
Computers have become such a ubiquitous part of our lives today that it's hard to imagine how we ever lived without them. And yet there are many for whom the use of a computer is a struggle and in some cases entirely out of reach, due to physical disability. This is what the EyeGuide™ Assist from Grinbath is designed to remedy.
In a nutshell, the EyeGuide™ Assist is an adjust...
Every occupational therapist needs to have assessment tools that can provide valid, reliable and predictable information that will help determine a patient's social or cognitive level, and that will help the therapist to chart a course of treatment and track changes over time. The Lowenstein Occupational Therapy Cognitive Assessment (LOTCA™ ) battery is used to assess adults with neurological...
It's easy to take a daily living activity such as climbing stairs for granted. However, due to illness, such as cardiopulmonary issues, neurological conditions including MS, diabetic neuropathy and strokes, age-related wear and tear like arthritis and balance problems, or accidents resulting in reduced mobility, the ability to move freely between the floors of one's own home becomes difficult, if ...
Sometimes it seems that the most innocuous situation can turn into a most trying time. One example is getting out of a car. Getting in and out of a car is akin to squatting, balancing on one leg, bending at the waist while lowering the head and using different muscle groups with the apex of the muscle strain being on the knee, hips and the twisting lower back. Doing this daily ...
Work hardening enables a patient to gain strength and endurance through exercise therapy in an environment that simulates his or her workplace.
For therapists starting or enhancing a work hardening program and wanting to do so easily and affordably, Rehabmart offers two packages of equipment made by Bailey Manufacturing. Both feature wooden components made from naturally finishe...