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 [...]

I looked at his chest. There was a small rectangular bump on his right upper chest. What is it? I knew it’s a machine. But what is it?
It’s a deep brain stimulator for a person with Parkinson’s Disease (PD). Oh! After googling it to find out more about it, I discovered a video on a [...]

I attended the 1st Geriatric SIG yesterday after work at Alexandra Hospital. It was organised by the Singapore Association of Occupational Therapists (SAOT). The turnout was great. Most of those attended were students. I’m one of the few clinicians there. Nevertheless, it was nice to know each other, both clinicians and the students.
The SIG was [...]