Good evening list, I want to share a rather disturbing event that I experienced this weekend. While attending a continuing education course, I was confronted with the opinion that an occupational therapist's role is to address "upper extremity concerns." To make things worse the course instructor, an OT with over 20 years of experience, was the culprit. Don't worry though, I did take the offender to task for her lack of understanding of her own profession. It is scary that people actually have this opinion. And to make things worse, are telling others, so as to corrupt their fragile little minds. I for one am not an UE therapist. While I can treat an individual with an UE disorder, I also quite frequently treat individuals with disorders of their spine or lower extremities. I work along PTs in an outpatient clinic with no similarites between what I do in comparison to their treatment. In fact, my best referral source is a PT. He is readilly willing to refer because he understands the! benefit of OT and does not feel threatened by my treatments. Jimmie Arceneaux, LOTR On Sat, 04 August 2001, "Lucia M. Humphrey" wrote: Find the best deals on the web at AltaVista Shopping! http://www.shopping.altavista.com ******************** Unsubscribe by sending a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message's body, put the following text: unsubscribe OTlist ------ OTnow messages are archived at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] (and) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] ********rC***********
