Posted in Multisensory by Hulet Smith on 4/25/2012
Babies and small children learn through their senses. For most infants, everyday interactions with the world around them provide chances to develop neural pathways for fine and gross motor skills, cognitive functioning, and awareness as well as communication, both verbal and nonverbal.
For many others, challenges beginning in childhood such as cerebral palsy or an issue on the autism spectrum sh...
Heart disease. High blood pressure. Diabetes. Osteoarthritis. Cancer. It's no secret that weight is a risk factor in these and many more degenerative diseases.
It's also no secret that achieving and maintaining a healthy weight can be a struggle.
If a person goes online for help in the quest for weight loss, free apps and sites abound. Some people choosing to change their eating hab...
Do you often work with patient-clients who require sensory-motor training or re-training? Are many, if not all, of your days spent working on the rehabilitation of orthopedic malalignments? Do you strive for successful neuromotor rehabilitation after one of your patient-client's suffers a debilitating stroke or brain injury?
If you answered yes to either of the previous questions, d...
New advancements in orthoses may mean that the Bionic Man isn't science fiction anymore!
Perhaps more so than most areas of medical science, the advancements behind stroke recovery is ever-evolving as quantum leap improvements in our understanding of how the brain works and regenerates advances daily. These improvements translate quickly into patient treatment and outcome in the field of Ne...
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...
Posted in Medical Apps by Hulet Smith on 3/24/2012
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...
Babies and small children learn through their senses. For most infants, everyday interactions with the world around them provide chances to develop neural pathways for fine and gross motor skills, cognitive functioning, and awareness as well as communication, both verbal and nonverbal.
For many others, challenges beginning in childhood such as cerebral palsy or an issue on the autism spectrum sh...
Heart disease. High blood pressure. Diabetes. Osteoarthritis. Cancer. It's no secret that weight is a risk factor in these and many more degenerative diseases.
It's also no secret that achieving and maintaining a healthy weight can be a struggle.
If a person goes online for help in the quest for weight loss, free apps and sites abound. Some people choosing to change their eating hab...
Do you often work with patient-clients who require sensory-motor training or re-training? Are many, if not all, of your days spent working on the rehabilitation of orthopedic malalignments? Do you strive for successful neuromotor rehabilitation after one of your patient-client's suffers a debilitating stroke or brain injury?
If you answered yes to either of the previous questions, d...
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New advancements in orthoses may mean that the Bionic Man isn't science fiction anymore!
Perhaps more so than most areas of medical science, the advancements behind stroke recovery is ever-evolving as quantum leap improvements in our understanding of how the brain works and regenerates advances daily. These improvements translate quickly into patient treatment and outcome in the field of Ne...
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...