In my opinion, if a therapist is consistently PERFORMING 'therapy' that an aide an do, then it's not therapy. By definition, therapy REQUIRES the skills of a therapist.
Again it's my opinion, that routine, repetitive "exercises" that do not target SPECIFIC muscle(s) is not-therapy. Now, if someone has an injury and there are concerns about certain movements, weight restrictions, etc, then a therapist is necessary. But, my experience is that VERY few patient's meet this criteria. Ron ----- Original Message ----- From: Diane Randall <spark...@rcn.com> Sent: Monday, July 13, 2009 To: OTlist@OTnow.com <OTlist@OTnow.com> Subj: [OTlist] Why OT's Should NOT Focus on the UE RC> " Ask yourself, are you doing something that an aide could be doing? RC> If so, then you are not doing therapy!" DR> Please explain... you are correct in that aides may not know the clinical DR> reasoning behind a therapy but the actual physical part of engaging in DR> theraputic activity with a patient can sometimes be done by an aide although DR> unethical...just saying it is physically possible. -- Options? www.otnow.com/mailman/options/otlist_otnow.com Archive? www.mail-archive.com/otlist@otnow.com
