Physical Therapy Physical therapists held about 198‚600 jobs in 2010. Physical therapists‚ sometimes referred to as PTs‚ help people who have injuries or illnesses improve their movement and manage their pain. Physical therapists work as part of a healthcare team‚ overseeing the work of physical therapist assistants and aides and consulting with physicians and surgeons and other specialists. Physical therapists also work at preventing loss of mobility by developing fitness- and wellness-oriented
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Occupational Therapy By: Chriselda De La Cruz March 22‚ 2012 College Success‚ Orin 0101- P-15 Tuesday and Thursday 2:30pm-3:50pm Dr. Rufino Garcia‚ Jr. The career path I have chosen is Occupational Therapy. My reason for this path is to encourage a mental‚ physical and developmental change in children and adults. I have based my career on providing a therapy that draws a careful analyses and treatment on the emotional‚ mentally‚ physically disabled condition of a patient using
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Shauna Albert Dr. Joseph Jones English 1020 7 February‚ 2013 Music Therapy: Annotated Bibliography Blackwell‚ Wiley. "Music Reduces Anxiety in Cancer Patients." Science Daily‚ 10 Aug. 2011. Web. 20 Feb‚2013. The researchers of the Department of Creative Art at Drexel University in Philadelphia‚ analyzed data from 1‚891 patients taking part in 30 trails who were offered music or music therapy sessions. Researchers are trying to figure out if patients listening to pre-recorded music or patients
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Respiratory therapy is the career that I have chosen to pursue. A respiratory therapist helps patients that have breathing and/or lung problems. The reason I have chosen this career is because I have always loved helping others and have always planned on going into the medical field‚ but I hadn’t made up my mind until last summer when one of my mother’s family members died. We went to Texas to be with him until he passed‚ and there was a woman who was his respiratory therapist. I had spent most
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Arts Therapy | How creative arts therapy can be used in nursing practice | NRS-433V | Robin Marth | 2/12/2013 | | Creative Arts Therapy A study was performed in the United Kingdom in 2012 to evaluate the usefulness of creative therapy for dementia patients. Creative therapy can include art‚ dance‚ and music‚ and movement. There is a wide range of pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic interventions that can be used with dementia. The use of arts or creative therapy has been
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Animal Assisted Therapy Rachel Ann Rodriguez Candidate Number: 00243-014 May 2012 Word Count: 3636 Abstract Animal Assisted Therapy‚ a type of therapy that involves the use of different animals with specific characteristics‚ can be a natural aid in a patient’s treatment‚ as this approach successfully addresses a variety of physical‚ emotional‚ and psychological illnesses. Drug treatments and other means of healing are effective; however‚ they often have negative effects on the patient’s
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Animal-Assisted Therapy Library Research Everybody has come into contact with an animal at one point or another in their life. Whether it is a family’s dog that wanders curiously around the house or a cat brushing up against the cage begging to be adopted at the pet store. Most people take these encounters for granted. They do not see the potential these animals could have and could one day turn somebody’s life around. Animals play a huge role in many people’s lives through animal-assisted therapy and animal-assisted
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Occupational Therapy 1 Occupational Therapy: A Contemporary Career in Psychology Occupational Therapy Occupational Therapy: A Contemporary Career in Psychology U.S. News recently reported that occupational therapy is ranked as one of the 50 best careers of 2010 and ranked at 19 out of the top 100 careers expected to be the most secure and best paying in the next decade (U.S. News Staff‚ 2009). The American Occupational Therapy Association defines 2 occupational therapy as a profession
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Occupational therapy is the treatment of physical and psychiatric conditions by encouraging patients to undertake specific selected activities that will help them to reach their maximum level of function and independence in all aspects of daily life. As science and technology change‚ so does our occupational therapy practice methods. Technology influences our current practice and occasionally they create new tools for intervention. These activities are designed to make the best use of the patient’s
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process and the priority should be to ensure a child feels safe and secure‚ which can be done through the therapist being completely present‚ objective‚ flexible‚ patient and open minded (Landreth‚ 2013). It is important that a therapist does not rush therapy with a child‚ but instead is patient by allowing the child’s experience to unfold‚ which in turn will lead to healing. By being present and genuinely interested in the child‚ gives the therapist a direct role in the process‚ but they do not solve
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