Occupational Therapy

This will be the topic that Fizah and I will be doing for our manuscript for the OCT4NRE module. We are now in the phase of summarising the literature and tomorrow, we will attempt to critique the current literature.
Mirror therapy has been used for patients with phantom pain, complex regional pain syndrome etc. However, use [...]

I attended a lecture by Prof Carolyn Baum just now on Participation & Performance in Person’s with Stroke. In her research with the Cognitive Rehabilitation Research Group, they focus more on linking neuroscience to everyday life. That’s their motto.
I found out several new, amazing stuffs they had discovered in their research with stroke patients in [...]

Hi all!
It’s been 3 weeks of school. One thing I have to say is… there’s LOTS and LOTS of readings! Expected actually. I’m trying to keep up with weekly readings of all modules but it seems to be quite hard to do that. This is especially so for the Illness and Spirituality module. It takes [...]

To readers,
I’m currently in La Trobe University, Australia, doing a degree conversion in Occupational Therapy. It’s been 2 weeks since I first arrived here. While doing my weekly shopping in the markets and supermarkets, I had noticed several things about the elderly and society here in Australia.
Firstly, they are very much independent. I saw many [...]

In current workplace, the workgroup has SIG every week whereby each therapist takes turn to present on something they have just learnt or something new or anything that may help us in managing the patients better.
Tomorrow will be a presentation. In the previous SIG, NPH was presented. It was a sharing session as I went [...]