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07.25.10
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On Their Own Two Feet: Challenges with mobility loss in MS patients
| PT
As many patients with Multiple Sclerosis can attest, your entire world changes in one simple visit to the doctor. Plans that were made for your golden years – traveling the world, playing with your grandchildren, taking up gardening – have to be scrapped for more realistic goals, namely the ability to dress yourself and walk up and down the stairs. However, according to recent reports from clinicians, many patients and care partners lack the necessary understanding of MS progression, relapse, and its general impact on mobility and gait.
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07.25.10
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Huffing Your Life Away: Identifying those at risk of inhalant abuse
| RT
Recent studies by the National Inhalant Prevention Coalition estimate that one in five students in the United States has used an inhalant to get high by the time they reach the eighth grade – in a trend referred to as “huffing.” While education measures are in place to alert parents about this growing crisis in their homes, the same cannot be said for respiratory care professionals working in emergency rooms who may be seeing inhalant abusers slipping right under their noses.
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02.14.10
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Putting Your Best Foot Forward: Today’s trends in gait rehabilitation
| OT, PT
With the average adult taking more than 2,500 steps per day per foot, one bad gait behavior repeated millions of times could have a devastating effect on the muscles, nerves, and joints. In an effort to curtail long-term damage, today’s physical therapists and occupational therapists are mixing some tried-and-true techniques with new technology intended to increase endurance, strengthen muscles, and improve coordination and balance.
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01.04.10
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Sparking a Connection: Neuromuscular electrical stimulus and the changing times
| SLP
For patients affected by paralysis resulting from head injury, stroke, or other neurological disorders, interference with the electrical signals between the brain and the muscles results in various forms of paralysis. Today, speech therapists laboriously working to retrain these patients’ muscles have opted to return to the source, adding electricity to the regimen in hopes of regaining their former range of function.
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01.04.10
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Amping Up Current Therapy: Functional electrical stimulus and the changing times
| OT, PT
For patients affected by paralysis resulting from spinal cord injury, head injury, stroke, or other neurological disorders, interference with the electrical signals between the brain and the muscles results in various forms of paralysis. Today, physical therapists and occupational therapists laboriously working to retrain these patients’ muscles have opted to return to the source, adding electricity to the regimen in hopes of regaining their former range of function.
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01.03.10
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Changing Healthcare on the Homefront: Medicare squares off with home healthcare
| Nursing
While Medicare stands as the government’s main program to meet the needs of our seniors, there is actually little it does to address their long-term care needs. An alternative that many state governments are encouraging is home care rehabilitation services, which can cost about a third of the price as comparable care in a nursing home. In a survivalist economy, with scant aid from Medicare, a new class of nurses and therapists are entering the home care field, prepared to weather the storm.
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11.09.09
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The Air in There: On the fringe with hyperbaric oxygen therapy
| Nursing, RT
For years, many healthcare professionals considered hyperbaric oxygen therapy a treatment in search of diseases. However, in recent years, medical studies have found more than a dozen serious conditions for which it is considered a valuable – and occasionally life-saving – treatment.
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10.26.09
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Face-to-Face with Challenging Therapy: Therapists pushing the envelope in craniofacial disorders
| SLP
Infants with craniofacial disorders have been observed to have problems with feeding, ear disease, speech, and even socialization. While modern medicine is quick to surgically correct these congenital deformities after diagnosis, work for the speech pathologists is just beginning as they struggle to curtail the possible long-term effects on speech and language through the patient’s infancy and adolescence.
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10.12.09
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Fighting For Time: Preserving hope and function against Huntington’s disease
| PT
A mere hiccup in the DNA coding – and that is really all Huntington’s disease is – spells out a death sentence for thousands of people each year in the United States. Alongside cognitive setbacks, Huntington’s patients are afflicted muscular degeneration, rendering them unable to walk, talk, or even swallow.
Helping prepare these patients for the trials ahead, therapists working with Huntington’s disease face a day-to-day struggle to fortify both hope and body function against the ravages of this disease.
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09.14.09
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Behind Bars : The challenging world of therapy in the correctional system
| MT, SLP
Therapy professionals face daunting challenges every day – the anxious or unwilling patients, plateaus in rehabilitation, psychological barriers – but not many have to maneuver around shackles and chains. Not all therapy clinics have guard towers and double chain-link fences topped with rolls of barbed wire, and most therapists don’t have to wait for guards to strip-search their patients before they begin their regimen. But such is the story of therapy in the correctional system.
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Linda Pippert, MA, CCC-SLP discusses opportunities available with AlphaVista Services, a multinational corporation providing Special Educational and Allied Healthcare programs and services worldwide. AlphaVista operates pediatric speech therapy/occupational therapy clinics and intervention centers in the United States and India.
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