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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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Huffing Your Life Away: Identifying those at risk of inhalant abuse | RT
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A Sticky Situation: Middle ear effusion and it’s effects on language, hearing | SLP
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Functional Gains: OT intervention can maximize movement for partial paralysis | OT
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Of Rice and Men: How a rice-based oral rehydration offers benefits to today's athletes | NT
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:: 06.12.10
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"Boss Your Brain" Strategies for Students | Therapy Resources
Amy McConkey Robbins
Children of all ages can benefit from techniques that help them remember, organize and retrieve the information they hear and read. In the July/August, 2005 issue of The Volta Voices, I wrote an article about techniques to help children with hearing loss boss their brain. I'd like to review some...
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:: 04.02.10
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Spring is in the Air | autism, Human Interest, nutrition, Kelly Olsen-Stanko
Behind The Zine
It's Spring time – the lovely time of year when life re-emerges from the cold, dark reaches of what seems like an eternal Winter. After the record-breaking snowfall here in Philadelphia, followed by an usual cold snap and buckets of rain, April 1st unofficially marked the beginning of Spring for...
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:: 03.22.10
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Hypno- Curious? Want to know more about NLP? | Hypnosummit --2010
Michael Ellner
Hypno- Curious? Want to know more about NLP? Check out the "Cyber" Hypnosummit Hypnosummit March 27 & 28
Full Conference Starting at Only $150!
Click here for full schedule: Click here 56 training sessions with 38 experts in Hypnosis, NLP and more - in the comfort of your home or office...
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Rejuvenation Amidst Frigid Temperatures | Patient Relations
Joanne Loewy
Hibernation, according to Webster's dictionary is a state of inactivity and metabolic depression in animals, characterized by lower body temperature, slower breathing, and lower metabolic rate. When animals hibernate they actually conserve energy. During winter, when food supply is limited, animals use their energy reserves at a slow rate. It...
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07.30.10
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Webcast
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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07.30.10
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Ellen Pritchard Dodge, MEd, CCC-SLP discusses the use of Kimochi dolls, which were created as a tool to parents and teachers to help children understand their emotions. Each Kimochi doll has an emotional them and children are encouraged to put the negative emotion inside of the pock on the front of the doll's tummy.
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07.30.10
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Beth Boozer, MA, CCC, discusses the Practical Test of Articulation and Phonology (PTAP), an analysis tool which takes only 4-8 minutes to administer, assesses children ages 3 years and old, and includes a comprehensive assessment of 23 phonemes and 7 phonological processes.
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07.28.10
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Journal Watch
A team of researchers led by NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center in New York City has developed a method to predict post-stroke recovery of language by measuring the initial severity of impairment.
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07.28.10
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In the News
Caring for a child with a disability can be challenging, but many of these challenges are due to a lack of necessary environmental supports, according to a study conducted by researchers at the Texas A&M University Center on Disability and Development in College Station.
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07.28.10
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Journal Watch
Severe obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) raised the risk of heart failure for middle-aged and older men – and significantly raised the risk of coronary heart disease in men up to age 70, according to research reported in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.
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07.28.10
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In the News
An estimated 400,000 people suffer an ACL injury each year, requiring primary reconstruction surgery to repair the injury. Unfortunately, 18,000 to 35,000 of those repairs will fail and require revisions, which are additional surgeries for reconstruction.
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07.28.10
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Journal Watch
Researchers writing in BioMed Central’s open access journal BMC Public Health interviewed 142 obese people about their opinions on interventions ranging from gastric bands to legal regulation, finding that non-commercial, non-stigmatizing techniques were preferred.
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07.03.10
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Tech Trends
At the recent APTA conference in Boston, Therapy Times was invited to the premier showing of the ZeroG™ Overground Gait and Balance Training System, distributed by Bioness Inc. Therapy Times was on-site at the Bioness Exhibitor booth for the official unveiling of the ZeroG system which makes it possible for therapists to safely train their patients in gait and balance activities.
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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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