If this is an activity that is important to the patient and they want to engage in, then it is OT. Transfers and functional mobility is within the domain of OT practice. Audra Ray
--- On Thu, 1/15/09, Ron Carson <[email protected]> wrote: From: Ron Carson <[email protected]> Subject: [OTlist] Fn. Mobility ~vs~ Gait Training To: [email protected] Date: Thursday, January 15, 2009, 4:36 PM If an OT facilitates a non-ambulatory patient to transfer to/from her toilet using a walker is this PT? If an OT facilitates a patient to walk from their w/c to the toildet, is this PT? Thanks, Ron -- Ron Carson MHS, OT Hope Therapy Services, LLC www.HopeTherapyServices.com www.OTnow.com -- 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]
