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By Spencer Perry, MSOT, OTR/L, Outreach Occupational Therapist. Chances are, that at some point, you have had a night where you tossed and turned, struggling to piece together an hour or two of sleep. The next day can feel like it drags on and you are fighting a battle to think clearly and do even the most basic tasks.
By Danielle Conklin, OTR/L, Outreach Senior Occupational Therapist. Year after year, falls continue to be a top threat to the health and safety of the older adult population. As per the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in 2019 falls contributed to 34,000 deaths, 3 million emergency room visits, and over $50 billion in medical costs to those who are 65 years and older.
By Alex Greenspan, MSPT, Outreach CEO. When you think of therapy for cognitive decline, what do you picture? Is it a Speech-Language Pathologist working on memory tasks? Is it an Occupational Therapist adapting the patient’s environment so that they can function better within it?
By Ashley Goussak, M.A., CCC-SLP Have you ever had the feeling where you know what word you want to say, but the correct word won’t come out? That “tip of the tongue” feeling happens to many of us occasionally, but for people who have a brain injury, including a cerebral vascular accident – also known as a stroke.
By Kyung-eun (Lilly) Park, PT, DPT Outreach Physical Therapist As we surpass two years since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, we are faced with issues resulting from the very strategy that helped to save lives: social isolation. Many older adults who have gone through great lengths to protect themselves from illness and mortality are battling […]
By Andrew Wolfanger, PT, DPT Total Hip Arthroplasty (THA) is a highly effective surgical procedure for those suffering from significant pain and disability due to end stage osteoarthritis. The procedure has been shown to consistently reduce pain, restore function, and improve patient reported quality of life. Surgeons utilizing a posterolateral surgical approach have long utilized […]
By Jan Michael Bacalzo PT, DPT, Outreach Physical Therapist and Melissa Roque, MS CCC-SLP, Outreach Speech-Language Pathologist Rachel is a 40-year-old working mother. One afternoon, as she was going back to her car after grocery shopping, Rachel was suddenly at a loss, and could not remember where she had parked her car. She frantically tried […]
By David Wallace, PT, DPT The diaphragm is a thin pancake-shaped muscle that sits between the thoracic and abdominal cavities. Its main function is its ability to contract, thereby expanding the lungs and enabling us to draw in a breath. However, in more recent years, other secondary roles of the diaphragm have begun to present […]
By Meghan Ahern, MS CCC-SLP As the holiday season approaches, a common unspoken theme runs through many of our activities. We lovingly spend hours preparing a roast turkey. We honor our family traditions by breaking out a battered recipe card with a Great Aunt’s secret ingredients. We fill stockings with treats, and fry crispy latkes […]
By Lacey Salberg, PT, DPT, Outreach Physical Therapist Is urinary incontinence (UI) a health problem that Physical Therapists can address? The answer is yes! While UI may be a common symptom among older people, it is not an inevitable part of aging. According to a 2015 systematic review by Stenzelius et al., the prevalence of […]
By Stacey R. Lav, OTR/L As occupational therapists, we provide opportunities over prescriptions. Therapeutic relationships are key in the overall success of our clients and are a big part in motivating the client to participate in their plan of care, and better improve client outcomes. Occupational therapists facilitate finding the meaning in the day-to-day and […]
“You help people who don’t like their jobs?” “What is occupational therapy?” “Why do you work with older people if most of them are already retired?” “What can you help me with, I don’t work anymore?” These are questions I have heard for years from friends, family and clients. When I recently moved from New […]
Parkinsons Disease is a chronic progressive neurological disease that is linked to decreased dopamine production in the substantia nigra and presents typically with symptoms of tremor of resting muscles, rigidity, slowness of movement, impaired balance, and a shuffling gait.
Resistance training for elderly patients is a powerful therapeutic tool with endless benefits. We conventionally think of resistance training as a tool to improve muscle strength, ease of transfers, and stair negotiation, but it doesn’t end there.
Read this special announcement on the partnership of Outreach Rehabilitation and Bright Side Manor.
In recent years, with the advent of the smart watch, smart phone, and fit bit, the general public has become increasingly fixated on taking their health into their own hands. Learn more.
Dagger (2006) examined a group of healthy normal individuals and found that laryngeal penetration was a common occurrence in the swallow. Starting at age 50 she found penetration to occur in 16.8% of swallow. Learn more.
Blood Flow Restriction (BFR) is a relatively new advent to the strength training and rehab world, and has been (rightfully) receiving quite a bit of attention, and research. Learn more.
83% of help provided to older adults in the United States come informally from family members, friends, or other unpaid caregivers, and about half of these caregivers provide help to an older adult with Alzheimer’s or another dementia. Learn more.
Older adults exhibit a progressive decrease in muscle mass with aging, termed sarcopenia. An estimated 40-50% decrease in muscle mass is seen between ages 25-80. Learn more.
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