Latest Occupational Therapist News
FOTO's CMS-Designated Qualified Clinical Data Registry (QCDR) Provides Rehab Therapists Extensive Choice In Measure Selection
Focus on Therapeutic Outcomes, Inc. (FOTO), a provider of web-based patient outcomes management solutions, risk-adjusted functional assessments, and predictive analytics, is p...Full Article
Driving With Dementia -- New Guidance For Doctors
New guidance on when people living with dementia should stop driving has been published to support doctors and other health care professionals. 'Driving with Dementia or Mild...Full Article
Pioneering Eurgery Restores Movement To Children Paralyzed By Acute Flaccid Myelitis
An innovative and complex surgery involving nerve transfers is restoring hope and transforming lives torn apart by a mysterious and devastating illness. Acute flaccid myelitis...Full Article
Clinic Improves Lives Of Children With Disabilities
When Madison took her first tentative steps as a 1-year-old, her parents noticed she seemed to favor her right side and tended to swing her left leg around as she ambled acros...Full Article
Occupational Therapy Improves Health, Quality Of Life Of Young Adults With Diabetes
New results from a University of Southern California-led research study demonstrates the distinct value of occupational therapy for improving the health and quality of life of...Full Article
Exosystems To Demo Gamified Physical Therapy Technology At CES 2019
South Korean healthcare wearables maker Exosystems, a member company of the K-ICT Born2Global Centre, will demonstrate its latest AI-based technology at CES 2019 next month. ...Full Article
The Global Occupational And Speech Therapists And Audiologists Market Was Valued At $58.4 Billion In 2017
Occupational and speech therapists and audiologists industry comprise establishments of independent health practitioners primarily engaged in planning and administering educat...Full Article
ChanceLight Expands Autism Services Throughout Georgia; Adds Clinics And Therapists To Provide Life-Changing Applied Behavior Analysis Therapy
ChanceLight, one of the nation's leading providers of Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) therapy — widely recognized as the most effective, evidence-based treatment for autism — ...Full Article
Right At Home Gives The Gift Of Mobility In Vietnam And Costa Rica
The World Health Organization estimates that 70 million people need a wheelchair but cannot afford one. Free Wheelchair Mission believes in a world where everyone who needs a ...Full Article
Can A Video Game-Based “Digital Medicine” Help Children With Autism And Co-occurring ADHD?
Researchers at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) evaluated a digital medicine tool designed as an investigational treatment for children with autism spectrum disorder...Full Article
Canine Volunteers Contribute To Patients’ Care And Comfort
Sadie has been doing hospital volunteer work for almost eight years now. She has a regular schedule, a photo ID badge and a vest she wears while on duty. Though Sadie hasn’t ...Full Article
Orlando Veterans See Benefits From Virtual Music Program For Therapy
Live Music Tutor Inc. (LMT), a public benefit corporation, and The Orlando Veterans Affairs Community Living Center (Orlando CLC) partnered to provide relief and hope for vete...Full Article
Study Details Development Of Functional Skills In Persons With Down Syndrome
When expectant parents learn their child will be born with Down syndrome, they invariably have questions about what this diagnosis will mean for their son or daughter and for ...Full Article
Clothes For Kids That Can't Stop And Won't Stop
Reboundwear announces the launch of their children's line available exclusively through Zappos Adaptive. Reboundwear Kids is cool looking, functional, and fashionable, adaptiv...Full Article
Bright.md's SmartExam™ Now Helps Patients Get Treatment For Back Pain
Bright.md has added a module to its SmartExam telehealth solution that will help patients get comprehensive treatment for low back pain. Approximately 80% of adults will have ...Full Article
Local Artist With Autism Launches Greeting Card Line For Holidays And Beyond
Local artist Brian Watkins (Brian Watkins Gallery) is pleased to announce the release of his line of holiday stationery, including greeting cards, thank you notes and compleme...Full Article
Spinal Cord Injuries Throw Body Clocks Off Schedule, New Study Shows
In the hours and days following a spinal cord injury, the gears that control the body’s internal clocks fall profoundly out of sync, impacting body temperature, hormone fluct...Full Article
Multi-Million Grant From The Rita & Alex Hillman Foundation Will Fund National Implementation Of Johns Hopkins School Of Nursing’s Aging-in-Place Program
The Johns Hopkins School of Nursing (JHSON) will receive the largest grant ever given by the Rita & Alex Hillman Foundation to a single nurse-driven innovation, marking JHSON’...Full Article
3-D Printing Offers Helping Hand To Patients With Arthritis
Adaptive aids are expensive. Additive manufacturing, using low-cost 3-D printers, can save upwards of 94% for simple household items. The Centers for Disease Control and Preve...Full Article
Stress From Using Electronic Health Records Is Linked To Physician Burnout
Common causes of EHR-related stress include too little time for documentation, time spent at home managing records and EHR user interfaces that are not intuitive to the physic...Full Article
Violinist Plays Again Thanks To Spinal Cord Stimulation
Alventena Cobb of Conway is a professional musician. She’s played the violin for more than 30 years and has instructed many students. Cobb uses her instrument as a method of e...Full Article
Brooks Rehabilitation Home Health Adopts MetTel Telehealth To Enhance Patient Care Patient Monitoring
Brooks Rehabilitation Home Health has selected MetTel's telehealth solution for IoT-connected Remote Patient Monitoring powered by Health Recovery Solutions (HRS), to reduce r...Full Article
More Than Medical Supplies: How Baptist Health Transformed Supply Chain Strategy To Enhance Patient Care
When Baptist Health signed a five-year prime vendor distribution agreement with Medline in 2014, Kentucky's largest not-for-profit health system expected a significant return ...Full Article
Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy Designates University Of Virginia Children's Hospital As A Certified Duchenne Care Center
Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy (PPMD), a nonprofit organization leading the fight to end Duchenne muscular dystrophy (Duchenne), named University of Virginia Children's Hos...Full Article
NYU Langone Health Performs Its Second Face Transplant
This past January 2018, a surgical team from NYU Langone Health performed its second face transplant, replacing much of the upper, mid, and lower face and jaws of a 26-year-ol...Full Article
