Occupational therapist helped Marathon bombing victim. Yoon S. Byun/Globe staff[/caption]
Boston Marathon victims are recovering from their injuries and learning to put their lives back together, with therapists devoting their time with each individual, and becoming an important part of their lives.
Read this article from the Boston Globe
By Kay Lazar | Globe Staff June 09, 2013
The American Heart Association/American Stroke Association has updated their comprehensive acute stroke care guidelines from 2009. While we therapists are usually not involved in treating stroke patients at this stage, hopefully we will now see fewer patients with long term sequelae. There is clearly a greater “push” for thrombolysis with TPA, and they have extended the window of time to a 4.5 hour window (from 3 hours) in certain cases. Contraindications are also revamped. They are recommending teleradiology for community hospitals that lack access to neurological expertise. Mechanical thrombectomy in acute stroke has not been shown to improve patient outcomes.
To read the entire summary:
http://neurology.jwatch.org/
You may have heard that a clinical study recently published by Neurorehabil Neural Repair (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/23549520/) found that early physical therapy in individuals severely affected with Bell’s Palsy could lead to better long term results.
As we are planning for 2014/2015 we would love to hear your thoughts on courses that you would like to see us develop, subjects that would be of interest to you and material that will help you meet your CEU needs?
Please post your thoughts below….. thank you so much
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We would like to thank all the New Grads who joined our mailing list. We did randomly select a therapist to receive free tuition towards one of our CEU courses. Congratulations Beth!!
We would like to help you all plan for your future continuing education. We offer CEU courses for PT’s, OT’s and SLP’s in a full range of specialties: Pediatrics, Special Education, Adult/Geriatric Rehab., Feeding, Acute Care, NICU, Home Care, and many more.
Please feel free to post any thoughts and comments below; ideas for future courses, topics, future speakers. We are happy to welcome you to our ERI community.
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