Physical Rehabilitation and Occupational Therapy

2018 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 471-486 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lauren C. Capozzi ◽  
Naomi D. Dolgoy ◽  
Margaret L. McNeely
Author(s):  
Yevhenij Іmas ◽  
Olena Lazarieva

Topicality. The crisis situation of the state of Ukrainian population health lifts the level of rehabilitation of patients and persons with disability to the priority national problem. The state of rehabilitation services grant substantially depends on the skilled personnel providing. Research aim: on the basis of analysis of scientifically-methodical literature and normatively legal acts to investigate pre-conditions and modern trends of progress of physical therapy and occupational therapy specialities in Ukraine. Research results. The educational programs of specialists preparation on a physical rehabilitation have many defects, and preparation of specialists on occupational therapy is absent in our country absolutely. In accordance with normative acts physical therapy is the legal successor of physical rehabilitation in our country, but these concepts are not identical. The intensive process of forming of new specialities, criterias of accreditation, educational programs of retraining passes in Ukraine. Conclusions. Change of legal bases in the sphere of preparation and labour of physical therapeutists and ergotherapeutists, design of educational programs in accordance with international standards, is the first step on a way to quality development of these fields of knowledge and practice.


2006 ◽  
Vol 60 (4) ◽  
pp. 388-396 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. A. Huebner ◽  
M. G. Custer ◽  
L. Freudenberger ◽  
L. Nichols

1981 ◽  
Vol 44 (6) ◽  
pp. 187-191 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leung Ping-Ching ◽  
Alice Wong ◽  
Wan Chi-Yin

After the considerable experience of treating 38 patients with toe to hand transplantations, the authors work out a protocol for the rehabilitation, of such patients. Discussions of this nature are not available in the literature. The discussions are preceded by a brief description on the technical details of the surgical procedures. The physical rehabilitation consists of physiotherapy and occupational therapy. The physiotherapist and occupational therapist work in close co-operation in the motor and sensory training of the transplanted toes. They are also concerned with the functional assessments and the evaluations of progress of individual cases. The time taken from the operation to the resumption of work averaged nine months.


2008 ◽  
Vol 75 (4) ◽  
pp. 229-229
Author(s):  
Sian Surridge

Occupational Therapy Evidence in Practice for Physical Rehabilitation (2006) Lois Addy (Ed) Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 9600 Garsington Road, Oxford, OX4 2DQ, UK, 257 pages; 26.99 pounds, ISBN: 978-1-4051-4687-6


Author(s):  
Liudmyla DEMCHENKO ◽  

Introduction. Theoretical research allowed to determine that the solution to the problem of forming the readiness of future specialists in physical therapy and occupational therapy for physical rehabilitation of preschool children should be based on innovation, activity, connection with future professional activities, creativity of specialist training. Therefore, it was expedient to create and introduce an author's model of forming the readiness of future specialists in physical therapy and occupational therapy for physical rehabilitation of preschool children. The purpose of the article. To present a quantitative and qualitative analysis of the state of training of future specialists in physical therapy and occupational therapy for physical rehabilitation of preschool children after the experimental implementation of the model of formation of such readiness. Methods. Theoretical methods: systematic analysis of scientific, psychological and pedagogical, methodological literature; generalization and systematization of theoreti cal information on professional training, statistical methods (Student's methods). Results. Based on the results of statistical analysis, the effectiveness of the proposed model of forming the readiness of future specialists in physical therapy and occupational therapy for physical rehabilitation of preschool children at the level of 0.05 for each of the indicators: positive dynamics of the levels of readiness of future specialists in physical therapy and occupational therapy of preschool children in EG is statistically higher and is characterized by the need for self-development of future bachelors in physical therapy, occupational therapy for physical rehabilitation of preschool children, mastering the system of knowledge and skills to apply rehabilitation practices in physical rehabilitation of preschool children, the need for continuous professional development. Implementation of the model of formation of readiness of the future specialist in physical therapy and occupational therapy for physical rehabilitation of preschool children has the greatest impact on the development of personal and activity components, which is confirmed by the dynamics of relevant indicators. Originality. Modern conditions of professional training of future specialists in physical therapy and occupational therapy for physical rehabilitation of preschool children determine the structure, content, principles and features of this process, based on which we have defined a set of criteria for describing and determining the levels of professional readiness of future specialists occupational therapy for physical rehabilitation of preschool children. Therefore, we have identified theoretical, praxeological and individual-psychological criteria for the formation of professional readiness of the future specialist in physical therapy and occupational therapy for physical rehabilitation of preschool children. Based on the criteria that characterize the professional readiness of future specialists in physical therapy and occupational therapy for physical rehabilitation of preschool children, we can conclude about the level of development of this characteristic in the training process. Conclusions. The pedagogical experiment showed the effectiveness of the proposed model of forming the readiness of the future specialist in physical therapy and occupational therapy for physical rehabilitation of preschool children, which is confirmed by statistical methods (Student's methods) at a significance level of 0.05


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