Hi Ron, I find myself on the same boat very often. A new MOT started working with me and she explains it just like that to the patients...WHY? I have no idea where the logic of that explanation comes from yet is very common to hear it. As I write this I am wondering If I could treat LE muscle dysfunction, gait training and deviatioins as well as I treat shoulders and the answer is no. (99% of my ortho cont. Ed and hands-on experience (14 years) have been with UE, shoulder rehab,and hands in addition to the traditional self care/home community and cognitive awareness re-training...Could that be the source of the "OT Treat Upper Body and PT Lower body" ? Carmen> Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 18:07:59 -0500> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected]> Subject: [OTlist] What the heck??> > Today, I went to lunch with the owner and marketers from a large DME> company. The owner's parents are having health issues and his mom was> just discharged from a SNF.> > When the owner learned that I was an OT he explained that he had just> "discovered" the difference between OT and PT. He continued by saying> that he *thought* OT worked on daily living things but had learned that> {drum roll, please}, OT is above the waist and PT is below the waist! He> asked the group if that was correct and when I started to explain> things, one of the marketing people said that he was basically correct.> Now get this... The marketing person's daughter is... you guessed it, an> OT!!!> > Is it any wonder that our profession has an identity crisis? Our> professional literature doesn't say we work above the waist, yet many> OT's are trained that way. We advertise ourselves as "skills for the job> of living", yet many OT's practice as UE therapists. What a mess!!> > Ron> > > > > -- > Options?> www.otnow.com/mailman/options/otlist_otnow.com> > Archive?> www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] _________________________________________________________________ Need to know the score, the latest news, or you need your Hotmail®-get your "fix". http://www.msnmobilefix.com/Default.aspx -- Options? www.otnow.com/mailman/options/otlist_otnow.com
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