My concern in this is that you ONLY mention and UE program. If general conditioning prevented the patient from performing occupation, why limit it only to the UE?
For me, general phy-dys practitioner's focus on the UE while disregarding the rest of the body severely hampers our professional autonomy. We MUST break free from the mold of being UE therapists! Ron ----- Original Message ----- From: Diane Randall <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, July 12, 2009 To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subj: [OTlist] Why OT's Should NOT Focus on the UE DR> I see your point...I was mistaken if I implied in my very first post that I DR> told the patient that he needed UE program in order to transfer. It was DR> justified to increase his overall conditioning. My inital reason for the DR> post was to point out that sometimes our patients assume the things we do in DR> the gym are "therapy" and the functional ADL's are just extras we do...which DR> of course is the very opposite. -- Options? www.otnow.com/mailman/options/otlist_otnow.com Archive? www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
