OT conversations

"What can I do in a paediatric trauma centre as an OT? Is there a room for us in the area?." In this episode, I had a conversation with Weng, an OT who faces a challenge of justifying the need of OT in a potential major trauma paediatric service. We had a talk about what can we be doing as an OT in the area of Major trauma service. This is a supportive conversation between colleagues and a wide ra...

Your treatment is to do passive stretching or do PROMs. DO you know the ROM values? In this episode, we discuss the normal values of joint ranges. As range of motion is one of the most popular performance components, it is just right for every clinician to be an expert with them and it starts by knowing the values.

In this episode, I share my initial thought process when I work in early phase of OT in critical care.

One of the common questions in the practice of OT in critical care is what are the assessments that and OT can do? I have noticed that this tends clinicians to look for set structures that that assist them with their practice. I find that we should not be relying on structures, instead, we should be relying on developing the global and ultimate skill of being able to assess what ever is presented...

I have been very reluctant in sharing this but this, I find to be a true pattern among progressing clinicians. Is it character? Is it personality? Or is it just is? In this episode I talk about my observations among Band 6s characteristics as they take on and they adopt their 'animal spirits'. After this, you can start observing your workplace and see where people are. Or, perhaps you can look at...

This is a quite a rare opportunity to interview a student who had their clinical placement in a challenging clinical area, critical care. In this episode, we explored the wisdom that an OT apprentice obtained after having been allowed to work for 8 weeks in critical care.

This is an actual case when the nurses thought the patient was confused. It talks about the case that presented with Apraxia and the assessment techniques and actions that was done. This highlights the importance of understanding symptoms that one observes.

This episode talks about some of the Perceptual deficits that OTs may encounter in their practice. It is not an exhaustive but it is a start. It is intended to familiarize OTs with symptoms that patients may present. May this build up your clinical vocabulary that you can use in your practice.

In this episode, I share with you some symptoms of impairment with speech. It will be helpful to any clinicians who want to build a vocabulary of terminologies pertaining to signs and symptoms. The symptoms are not an exhaustive list and it can be used to describe problems observed in physical dysfunction and mental health practice.

This episode talks about the various neurological conditions. We talk about some of the symptoms associated with the neurological symptoms and we talk about some interventions that you can consider implementing. This is suitable for therapists who are new in the neurological rehabilitation.

In this episode, we talk about stroke and we have an overview of the condition. We try to define Stroke, they types, the symptoms, how it is diagnosed, the interventions and the discharge options. This is suitable for any starting clinician who has not had a lot of experience with stroke

This is a brief talk about the visual subsystem. This is more of an insight of things related to visual subsystem and was recorded late at night with microphone hand held. It is a random and short discussion which prelude a more thorough discussion. Suitable for any OT working in neurological rehabilitation. It is a discussion of guides and tips on how to assess in treat cases where visual subsyst...

"I like to learn about cognitive rehab." This what most OTs would say. People make themselves expert of cognition and yet, they under estimate the value of perception - which is a strong foundation of cognition. Before you learn about cognitive rehab, you should learn perceptual rehabilitation. In this session, I talk about basic and common Cognitive perceptual deficits. This is suitable for clini...

In this episode, I talk to you about the dirty tricks that people use at work. They may be conscious or unconsciously applied. I gave this a lot of thought if this should be shared because once you acknowledge or become familiar with these dirty tricks that people employ, You will never be able to unsee them again. I am worried that you may even use these tricks yourself. Just be careful. Enjoy.

In this episode we talk about restorative treatment using Biomechanical Frame of Reference. it talks about some restorative principles for problems with performance components such as Strength, Endurance, Range of Motion and Edema. This is useful in resolving problems with conditions where the central nervous system is intact.

This episode explores one aspect on how to maintain the quality of the service with the current trend and challenges with NHS.

In this episode we name various motor behaviors and we link it to specific part of the brain. This will help you understand and name the motor behavior symptoms caused by neurological impairment.

As Occupational Therapy is a 'Trade' and a profession, surely it has tools that it utilizes. This episode discusses the tools of Occupational Therapy.

This episode gives an overview of the performance component called cognition to guide and equip clinicians with terminologies that you can use in practice.

This episode talks about performance components - the little parts that make up the a task. Knowing the performance component will enable an OT to develop and improve their skills in activity analysis and it is a core and foundation knowledge that all Occupational Therapists should know.

In this episode, I talk to you about the 4 parameters on where you base your assessment and intervention of a person's engagement with their ADLs. By knowing these parameters, you will be able to plan your treatment much better. This episode is beneficial to all levels of clinician from Band 5 all the way to Band 8s including students and rehabilitation assistants.

What are ADLs from the perspective of an Occupational Therapist? We hear about it but what are they really? In this his episode, we talk about 15 ADL activities and we sort out those that we can and cannot address if we are working in secondary, tertiary and quaternary care. We talk about the 9 specific ADLs that we can look into during the acute care and we highlight the 3 essential ADL tasks tha...

In this episode, we talk about a very practical model of practice that defines all the interventions that OTs will do in a physical dysfunction setting...and even perhaps psychosocial dysfunction as well. It is so useful, simple and yet, it just makes sense. This may end a clinician's search for a model of practice.

This episode of OT conversations talks about the Core Input of Occupational Therapy in a hospital care setting. Here we discuss how knowing the core input can assist in service evaluation and how it can assist in measuring efficiency savings. This is suitable for Band 7s and above but it is also suitable for all growing clinicians as it prepares them to be mindful of the service that they can be p...

The episode talks about continuum of care. What it is and what are the responsibilities of an OT working in the varying continuum. This OT conversation is suitable to students, newly qualified OTs, Band 6 Band 7s. In fact, it is suitable for all levels of clinicians.