I have one plan in which I join a traveling Occupational Therapy Corp. I have two routes that I may take once a graduate. Plan A, is to go back to school and earn my Doctorate in Occupational Therapy. If I decide to go back to school I will get a job at a local hospital or clinic. Plan B is to become a traveling OT (Occupational Therapist). Becoming a travel OT will allow me the
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According to the American Physical Therapy Association, physical therapists are licensed health care professionals who diagnose and treat individuals of all ages, who have medical problems or other health-related conditions that limit their abilities to move and/or perform functional activities in their daily lives. This is done through completion of an examination and the development of a plan using treatment techniques. The examination process includes taking the patient’s history, conducting a
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Physical Therapist There are many types of therapy in this world. Physical therapy however is the rehabilitation process after surgery and/or major injuries. Physical therapy has been around professionally since 1921. When it was first established it was for women only and was led by Mary McMillan. One year later the American Physiotherapy Association opened its doors to men. Physical therapy became very popular during World War II and has continued to escalate ever since then. “APTA represents
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While individual therapy provides the client with privacy and, to a degree, anonymity, it may not provide the therapist with accurate information. As the fictional doctor in the television series “House” would say, “everybody lies.” There is an old axiom that states that the truth generally lies somewhere in the middle and if you are seeing the client individually, you are only receiving part of the information and that part may not be enough to make an accurate treatment plan. By seeing the family
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Music therapy has been known to help change lives. Just listening to music and focusing on the beat, lyrics, or melody can help calm oneself or even help lift their spirit. Music therapy alleviates stress, anxiety, disorders, and illnesses because music is a core function of the brain. Music therapy alleviates stress and anxiety because it helps regulate people’s bodily systems. For example, a nonclinical trial was used that included 40 children from ages 7-12 years old with leukemia undergoing lumbar
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Occupational therapy today is different from occupational therapy in the 1950s in terms of treating population and available technology. Occupational therapy today treat a wide range of population ranging from children with special needs such as autism, to patient with physical disabilities such as patient with hand injury, spinal cord injury and acquired brain injury. Occupational therapist today can work in many different settings such as in hospitals, clinics, schools, client’s homes, community
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have always stretched past the spectrum of my imagination. I consider myself as a dreamer; someone who sees the world through a different perspective where one would ideally consider my plans and ideas as not practical or based in reality. Physical therapy is an ever-changing field improving an individual’s quality of life by returning them to their highest degree of personal independence through direct patient interaction and the use of exercise in recovery. Optimizing movement to improve the human
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Marcus Altman Music Therapy 5/3/2017 MUS 161 VH Listening to Music Music therapy is a method that has been around as long as music itself. Music therapy is a type of treatment used in Naturopathy Medicine, the use of interventions to accomplish individual goals within a therapeutic relationship by a professional who has completed and approved music therapy program (American Music Therapy Association, 2014). Music therapy consists of a process where music therapists harness the many components of
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Hello Ms. Streeter, I saw Dr. Waluzak yesterday. He is aware that I have completed physical therapy and have been instructed to continue all of the exercises at home, which I am doing at least 3-4 days a week. I am 90% better, however, when I do certain activities, such as getting in and out of my SUV (sit up high), Sexual activities (such as straddling), this is when I feel the greatest discomfort. I have to step on my running boards on my SUV to get in to avoid that discomfort from stretching
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History of Music Therapy The idea of utilizing music as a form of healing influence had been around since before the times of Aristotle and Plato, but the profession of music therapy formally began during the period of World War I and World War II when musicians of all kinds from amateurs who played in the local community as well as professionals who would travel all around the world came together to go to veteran hospitals, especially those in the United States, to play for the injured soldiers
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