Across
- 2. Memory, sequencing and problem solving are all things an OT may work on with a resident to improve this.
- 5. These assist residents who have tremors or poor coordination with self feeding.
- 6. OTs may ask a resident to perform a difficult task involving small objects to improve this.
- 8. This allows residents to independently perform their lower body dressing.
- 14. A modality used to improve muscle function, decrease pain, and promote healing
- 17. After treating a resident, the OT will have to do this in order to keep accurate records of what has occurred.
- 18. An OT may teach this to a resident involving distribution of weight enabling them to remain upright and steady.
- 20. OTs perform strengthening and balance exercises to increase these.
Down
- 1. Dressing, Toileting, Self care and bathing are all examples of these.
- 3. A condition characterized by an excess of watery fluid collecting in the cavities or tissues of the body.
- 4. This is an important part of everyday life that an OT will teach a resident to do safely.
- 7. A form of therapy that encourages rehabilitation through the performance of activities required in daily life.
- 9. OTs provide splints and perform range of motion to decrease the risk of these.
- 10. A modality to produce heat in a part of the body by high-frequency electric currents, to stimulate circulation, relieve pain or decrease muscle tone.
- 11. A strip of stiff material used for supporting and immobilizing a broken or decreasing muscle contracture.
- 12. The ability to determine potential hazards to yourself or others.
- 13. An OT may work on this with a patient using a walker/cane and enforcing safety awareness.
- 15. An OT may provide a special cushion to prevent the resident from developing this.
- 16. This piece of adaptive equipment allows residents to retrieve items that they otherwise can't.
- 19. This is Occupational Therapy Month