May 21, 2013 - iPads and OT Education (Leave a Comment)
Occupational Therapy practitioners have been utilizing iPads in intervention strategies to address cognition, visual perception, motor coordination, handwriting, and other impairments. The benefits of an iPad are especially useful for students with special needs for their ease of use, access to information, and convenience. However, iPads are now changing higher education and interaction in the [...]
May 15, 2013 - Music Therapy Program Releases CD (Leave a Comment)
Music Therapy patients at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt have partnered with Nashville community artists, musicians, producers, engineers, and other professionals to create the Everybody Has a Story CD. Each song on the CD is the result of a clinical music therapy session involving the patient and music therapist, Jenny Plume. “One day [...]
May 13, 2013 - Therapy Essential in Stroke Recovery (Leave a Comment)
Stroke can strike suddenly and most people don’t know what is happening. For JoAnn Berkley of Cookeville, TN, she was lucky to have a friend that was a former nurse recognize the symptoms which allowed her to get to a hospital immediately. As soon as she arrived at the hospital, the medical team started exams [...]
May 7, 2013 - May is National Stroke Awareness Month (Leave a Comment)
Did you know that May is National Stroke Awareness Month? On May 11, 1989, President George Bush signed Presidential Proclamation 5975 designating May as National Stroke Awareness Month to increase public awareness of stroke in an effort to conquer it. Here are some alarming facts about Stroke: Stroke kills twice as many women each year [...]
May 3, 2013 - Ponies With A Purpose (2 Comments)
You might think that miniature horses are just tiny and cute, but at Shands Rehab Hospital in Gainsville, Florida, miniature horses are assisting patients in therapy programs. Gentle Carousel Therapy Horses has partnered with the hospital to provide the newest form of therapy to patients. “No-one plans to go to rehab,” said Andrea Gilbert, a [...]
