Honestly, I consider our domain to be any activity that is important to the patient that they cannot do or have trouble doing. Most likely (99% of the time) if a person has consistent pain in any extremity, it is going to affect some activity that they do. Part of our evaluation should be to find out what. If it is important to be pain free during dressing or cooking, make that a goal and treat the person for the pain. I do think that is "Occupational Therapy". Audra Ray, OTR/L
--- On Thu, 9/4/08, Ron Carson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: Ron Carson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [OTlist] Advance for OT Article: Point #2 To: "OTlist" <[email protected]> Date: Thursday, September 4, 2008, 6:07 PM SOURCE: Advance for OT, Sep 1, 2008, P. 40 Article Title: "Injuries to the Wrist: Beneath the Surface of Ulnar Wrist Pain." ============================================================ The second paragraph on this page states: "All of these diagnoses belong to patients who likely have some concerns as to how their conditions affect their ability to participate in ADL..." I understand that this article and the above paragraph are not specifically about ADL's, however, the above sentence really struck me. What strikes me is the author refers to patients LIKELY having ADL concerns. IF occupation is our expertise, shouldn't occupation be the focus of OT treatment? How do members feel about this? Ron -- Ron Carson MHS, OT -- Options? www.otnow.com/mailman/options/otlist_otnow.com Archive? www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] -- Options? www.otnow.com/mailman/options/otlist_otnow.com Archive? www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
