Well, it doesn't say that he is a he, either!!! <grin> In all honesty, it is my own bias that leads me to believe that the author is a pt student. Of course, I 'hijacked' the message from a group called "physical therapy students".
Either way, the student's perceptions, while they may be accurate, are still pretty sad! Ron ======================================================= On Friday, December 5, 2003, @ 11:23 AM, you wrote: LD> It says he is an aide both in PT and OT and an undergraduate....no indication he is a PT LD> David A. Lehman, PhD, PT LD> Associate Professor LD> Tennessee State University LD> Department of Physical Therapy LD> 3500 John A. Merritt Blvd. LD> Nashville, TN 37209 LD> 615-963-5946 LD> [EMAIL PROTECTED] LD> -----Original Message----- LD> From: Ron Carson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] LD> Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 8:22 AM LD> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] LD> Subject: [OTnow] A PT Student's Explaination of the Diff. B/T OT and PT LD> What follows is a message taken from a PT Yahoo Group. The message is in LD> response to a question about the difference between OT and PT: LD> I was going to post my reply to the PT Group but I sent it to the person, LD> instead of the list, and now I can't find it. :-( LD> Ron >> Hi! >> I am an undergraduate student that works as a PT/OT Aide during summer >> breaks at an outpatient rehab clinic. In my clinic the OTs are usually >> specialized in hand therapy and work with patients from the shoulder down. >> PT do just about everything in the body except the hand and elbow, we send >> those patients to see the OT therapist. The OT from my experience work >> with people who got injured on the job and more with people who JUST got >> out of surgery. I have found this is true because the OT are very good at >> wound care and splint making for those patients. The PTs work with people >> like that as well, but it seems to happen less often. Anyways I am sure >> that is not the "real" definition. But it is a little of what I have >> experienced. LD> _______________________________________________ LD> To unsubscribe, visit: LD> http://otnow.com/mailman/listinfo/otlist_otnow.com LD> The OTnow Mail Archive: LD> www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] LD> =============================================== LD> _______________________________________________ LD> To unsubscribe, visit: LD> http://otnow.com/mailman/listinfo/otlist_otnow.com LD> The OTnow Mail Archive: LD> www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, visit: http://otnow.com/mailman/listinfo/otlist_otnow.com The OTnow Mail Archive: www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ===============================================
