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Check Out Our New Specialty Sites!
ADVANCE is pleased to introduce our new Specialty Spotlights on our Web site! On Sept. 1 we unveiled 9 new specialty sites which highlight many of the most popular practice areas and interests in...
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Meet Reo, the Newest Therapist at AGMC
Check out the new robotic arm OTs and PTs in Ohio are using to help stroke patients regain strength and function in their upper extremities. There's a picture with the story:...
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OT Presents at National Forum on Older Drivers
Earlier this month the National Transportation Safety Board held a two-day public forum on “ Safety, Mobility and Aging ” in Washington, DC. The forum was open to the public and also available via...
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Patients, Not Percentages
This morning ESPN aired its exclusive first interview with Eric LeGrand, the Rutgers University (NJ) football player who suffered a spinal cord injury on the field on Oct. 16. LeGrand fractured his C-3...
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Digging Deeper: The Manual Ability Measure
We recently ran a cover story in print and posted information online regarding the Manual Ability Measure, an occupation-based hand assessment developed by Christine Chen, MA, MS, ScD, OTR/L, FAOTA, an...
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Digging Deeper: Patient Perspective
This week we launched a special three part online series in which an OT patient shares excerpts from her personal journal including reflections on her spinal cord injury and her thoughts on daily...
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A Tale of a Tail
In 2007 ADVANCE profiled Winter, an Atlantic bottlenose dolphin who, at 20 months old, was caught in a crab trap off the coast of Florida. Winter was rescued, but she was so badly injured that her...
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Mission Accomplished!
I did it. On Sept. 15, I attempted and completed my first-ever 13.1-mile race -- the Philadelphia Rock ‘n' Roll Half-Marathon. Although I've been running since I was 13, this particular accomplishment...
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AOTA Issues Backpack Safety Tips
With the start of school approaching, the American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA), Bethesda, Md., issued a press release on July 30 stating, in part: "Heavy loads carried by more than 79...
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OTs Teaching PTs
While there are many important differences between the physical and occupational therapy fields, it is more often than not found that each profession can learn a lot from the other. Back in July I went...
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Baby Boomers and Joint Pain
This blog was written by Debra Karplus, author for the blog "When OTs Wear White Shoes." In the 1960s and ‘70s, a good number of baby boomers, post-war people born between the years 1946 and 1964, were...
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