Glass Half Full

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This week, Natalie and Jessica interview Pamela Dixon and Heidi Gilbert about the role of OT in addressing cognition in acute care. We discuss the importance of addressing cognition in this setting, as well as useful assessment and intervention approaches.

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ResourcesThe Value of Adding Cognition Interventions to Your Treatment ToolBox

Inside the EpisodeThis week, Natalie and Jessica interview Abril Macias about the importance of accessible and inclusive gyms for people with disabilities.

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Inside the EpisodeThis week, Natalie and Jessica interview Alissia Garabrant about loneliness in homebound adults. We discuss risk factors, signs and symptoms, and how to address issues related to loneliness in this vulnerable population. 

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ResourcesSuper Better

Geriatric Depresion Scale

UCLA Loneliness Scale

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This week, Natalie and Jessica interview Kersten Laughlin about trauma-informed care. We discuss signs and symptoms that may suggest a history of trauma, ways that trauma influences occupational performance, and how to interact with patients experiencing trauma.  

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ReferencesCovington, Stephanie. (2017, September 14). 3 steps to becoming a trauma and gender responsive organization. [Webinar]. Retrieved from https://event.on24.com/eventRegistration/console/EventConsoleApollo.jsp?&eventid=1487728&sessionid=1&username=&partnerref=&format=fhaudio&mobile=false&flashsupportedmobiledevice=false&helpcenter=false&key=89BF794F37726508B0671C4362E3A2C5&text_language_id=en&playerwidth=1000&playerheight=650&overwritelobby=y&eventuserid=197921555&contenttype=A&mediametricsessionid=161236014&mediametricid=2135572&usercd=197921555&mode=launch 

Institute for Chronic Pain. (n.d.). Trauma. Retrieved from https://www.instituteforchronicpain.org/understanding-chronic-pain/complications/trauma

Jones, G. T., Power, C., & Macfarlane, G. J. (2009). Adverse events in childhood and chronic widespread pain in adult life: Results from the 1958 British Birth Cohort Study. Pain, 143, 92-96.

McBeth, J., Silman, A. J., Gupta, A., Chiu, Y. H., Morriss, R., Dickens, C., King, Y., & Macfarlane, G. J. (2007). Moderation of psychosocial risk factors through dysfunction of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal stress axis in the onset of chronic widespread musculoskeletal pain: Findings of a population-based prospective cohort study. Arthritis & Rheumatism, 56, 360-371.

Scarinci, I. C., McDonald-Haile, J., Bradley, L. A., & Richter, J. E. (1994). Altered pain perception and psychosocial features among women with gastrointestinal disorders and history of abuse: A preliminary study. The American Journal of Medicine, 97, 108-118.

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. (2014). SAMHSA’s concept of trauma and guidance for a trauma-informed approach. Retrieved from https://store.samhsa.gov/shin/content/SMA14-4884/SMA14-4884.pdf

Young Casey, C., Greenberg, M. A., Nicassio, P. M., Harpin, R. E., & Hubbard, D. (2008). Transition from acute to chronic pain and disability: A model including cognitive, affective, and trauma factors. Pain, 134, 69-79.

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This week, Natalie interviews Jessica about disability studies! We talk about the main concepts behind disability studies, with a focus on the social model of disability. We discuss the differences between the social model of disability and the medical model of disability, and how we can use social model concepts in occupational therapy.

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ReferencesAbberley, P. (1987). The Concept of Oppression and the Development of a Social Theory of Disability, Disability, Handicap & Society, 2(1), 5-19. 

Barnes, C. (2003). Disability Studies: what’s the point? Notes for a verbal presentation at the Disability Studies: Theory. Policy and Practice Conference; University of Lancaster, September 4th, 2003. 

James Charlton. Nothing About Us Without Us. 

Clear, M. and Gleeson, B. (2002). Disability and Materialist Embodiment. 49 June Journal of Australian Political Economy, 34-55. 

Cuff, S., McGoldrick, K., Patterson, S., & Peterson, E. (2016). The Intersection of Disability Studies and Health Science. Transformations: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy, 25(2), 37-50. 

Davis, Lennard. “The End of Disability Politics and the Beginning of Dismodernism: on Disability as an Unstable Category.” In Disability Studies Reader, 2nd ed. 231-242. 

Davis, Lennard. “The Social Model of Disability.” In Disability Studies Reader, 2nd ed. 195-203. 

Erevelles, N. (2014). Thinking with Disability Studies. Disability Studies Quarterly, 34(2), 1-18. 

Fraser, Nancy (2016). “Contradictions of Capital and Care,’’ in New Left Review. 100: 99-117. 

Garland-Thomson, R. (2002). Integrating Disability, Transforming Feminist Theory. NWSA, 14(3), 1-32. 

Gleeson, B. (1997) Disability Studies: a historical materialist view, Disability & Society, 12(2), pp. 179-202. 

Hughes, B. & Paterson, K. (1997). The Social Model of Disability and the Disappearing Body: Towards a Sociology of Impairment. Disability and Society, 12(3), 325-340. 

Linton, S. (1998) Disability Studies / Not Disability Studies [pp. 132-156], Claiming Disability, Knowledge and Identity. New York: New York University Press. 

Meekosha and Shuttleworth. “What’s So ‘Critical’ About Critical Disability Studies.” Australian Journal of Human Rights. Volume 15 (1): 47-75. 

Oliver, M. (1996) The Social Model in Context [pp. 30-42] Understanding Disability from Theory to Practice. St. Martin’s Press: New York. 

Oliver, M. and Barnes, C. (2010) Disability studies, disabled people and the struggle for inclusion. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 31(5), 547-560. 

Oliver, M. (2013). The social model of disability: Thirty years on. Disability and Society, 28(7), 1024-1026. 

Pfeiffer, D. (2002). The Philosophical Foundations of Disability Studies. Disability Studies Quarterly, Spring, 22(2), 3-23. 

Puar, Jasbir. “The Cost of Getting Better: Ability and Debility” in The Disability Studies Reader, edited by Lennard J. Davis, Taylor and Francis, 2013. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/uic/detail.action?docID=1125176. 

Putnam, M. (2005). Conceptualizing Disability. Developing a Framework for Political Disability Identity. Journal of Disability Policy Studies, 16(3), 188-198. 

Russell, M. “Backlash, The Political Economy and Structural Exclusion.” 

Russell, M. and Malhotra, R. “The Political Economy of Disablement.” 

Samuels, Ellen Jean. Fantasies of identification: disability, gender, race. New York University Press, 2014. “Introduction: The Crisis of Identification” 

Shakespeare, T. (1993). Disabled people’s self-organisation: a new social movement?, Disability & Society, 8(3), 249 – 264 

Siebers, Tobin. Disability theory. University of Michigan Press, 2011. “Chapter 1: Introduction” 

Strand, L. (2017) Charting Relations between Intersectionality Theory and the Neurodiversity Paradigm Strand. Disability Studies Quarterly, 37(2). 

Thomas, C. (2004)

Inside the EpisodeThis week, Jessica and Natalie talk with Barbara Ostrove and Laurel Radley about the history of mental health OT, current trends, and future directions.

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ResourcesAOTA Resource: Occupational Therapy’s Distinct Value

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This week, Jessica and Natalie talk with Bobby Blair about Graded Motor Imagery as an approach to pain management. We discuss how and when this approach is used and how it fits within the occupational therapy practice framework.

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ReferencesMendez-Rebolledo, G., Gatica-Rojas, V., Torres-Cueco, R., Albornoz-Verdugo, M., & Guzman-Munoz, E. (2017). Update on the effects of graded motor imagery and mirror therapy on complex regional pain syndrome type 1: A systematic review. Journal of Back Musculoskeletal Rehabilitation, 30(3), 441-449.

Polli, A., Moseley, G. L., Gioia, E., Beames, T., Baba, A., Agostini, M., Tonin, P., & Turolla, A. (2017). Graded motor imagery for patients with stroke: A non-randomized controlled trial of a new approach. European Journal of Physical Rehabilitation Medicine, 53(1), 14-23.

Shepherd, M., Louw, A., & Podolak, J. (2018). The clinical application of pain neuroscience, graded motor imagery, and graded activity with complex regional pain syndrome- A case report. Physiotherapy Theory and Practice, 30, 1-13.

ResourcesGraded Motor Imagery

NOI Group

Why Do I Hurt?

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This week, Jessica interviews Natalie and Peter Munoz, a George Washington University ECMO coordinator. We discuss the history of ECMO, decision to place a patient on ECMO, and therapy’s role in the advanced care of this patient population. We will discuss modifying therapy based on unique hemodynamic stability indicators, therapy’s role in facilitating building respiratory tolerance and building a multidisciplinary team to maximize patient healing.

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ReferencesShudo, Y., Kasinpila, P., Le, A. M., Rao, V. K., & Woo, Y. J. (2018). Ambulating femoral venoarterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation bridge to heart-lung transplant. The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, 156(3).

ResourcesELSO Website

What is ECMO?

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This week, we discuss the role of occupational therapy in the acute care setting and the impact of critical illness on clients.  We will discuss the importance of the initial chart review, modifying therapy based on hemodynamic stability and normal parameters as well as the implications of lab values on occupational therapy participation and evaluation.

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ReferencesWinkleman, C. Crit Care Clin 2007:23: 21-34

Ferrand, AA, et al.  American Journal Physical Therapy 1996: 270: E627 – E633.

Zanni, JM, et al.  Journal for Critical Care.  2010 June: 25(2): 254-262

Kortebein, P, et al. JAMA. April 25, 2007.  297 (16), 1772-73.

ResourcesLab Values

Lab Values handout

Inside the EpisodeWe talk with Shaun Conway about the NBCOT Navigator Tool. Learn the purpose and uses of this tool, how to access it, and how to take advantage of this opportunity for continuing education.

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ResourcesNBCOT Navigator