Posts filed under 'amputations'
Educating Patients with Amputations
Aside from educating an amputee about phantom limb pain, what else do occupational therapists have to teach patients? The things I can think of are: skin checks, wound care, ace wrapping, and splint education. Anything else?
(My question refers to on top of the usual ADL training that we would do)
6 comments February 13, 2008
I made a splint!
I made my first splint independently last week. I’ve made lots of splints in my time, especially footplates (to prevent foot drop), but every time I ever made a splint before, I had a clinical instructor or someone else right there to help me out. This splint I did all by myself. And I did a really good job, too
It was a relatively simple splint, a knee extension splint for a below knee amputee (BKA), but I’m happy that I was able to do is all by my lonesome self.
Add comment August 27, 2007
OT in the Army
Here’s a cool video of an occupational therapist at Walter Reed Hospital:
2 comments May 13, 2007