ch 18 Flashcards
(23 cards)
What are some of the goals of therapeutic exercise?
Increase muscle strength, increase range of motion, improve muscle endurance, improve coordination, increase cardiovascular fitness
What includes both the method of intervention and the medium?
Modality
What are the supplies and equipment used during OT intervention?
Media
What is a goal-directed activity that simulates an actual occupation?
Purposeful activity
What is an apparatus used to support, align, prevent, or correct deformities or to improve the function of parts of the body?
Orthotic device
What are therapeutic activities which require some aspect of pretending and completed when the clinical environment may not have the required material or equipment?
Simulated activities
What are necessary activities that make up an occupation?
Occupation-based activities
What are the steps, sequences, and approaches used to activate the therapeutic effect of a medium?
Methods
What examines the steps of an activity and its components to determine the demands of the client?
Activity analysis
What does the OT practitioner do to change the steps, environment, tools, or materials of an activity to increase or decrease the performance demands of the client?
Grading
What does the OT practitioner do to change an aspect of the activity or the environment to enable the client to perform an activity at the highest possible level of function and reach a therapeutic goal?
Adapting
What are low-to high-technological devices that aid function and provide the necessary adaptations so that the client can engage in different activities and achieve therapeutic goals?
Assistive devices
What does the OT practitioner do when introducing an activity and grading or adapting it to provide the ‘just-right challenge’?
Activity synthesis
What are preparatory methods that elicit response in soft tissue commonly used to treat hand and arm injuries?
Physical agent modalities (PAM)
What involves providing deep pressure to inhibit abnormal muscle tone to help the client engage in purposeful movement?
Sensory input
What requires that the practitioner continually teach and ask others to show the learned concepts?
Education
What involves providing suggestions and intervention strategies to help clients engage in occupations?
Consultation
What is a group where members may have common needs and aims to accomplish specific outcomes and tasks?
Task group
What should an OT practitioner determine for each member before leading a group?
Individual goals
What enables the client’s acquisition of performance skills needed to engage in their roles and daily occupations?
Interventions to support occupations
What may promote emotional stability in preparation or engagement in occupations and meaningful activities?
Self regulation techniques
What is the interaction between members based on personalities and relationships?
Group dynamics
What are examples of environmental modifications?
Grab bars for bathroom safety, ramps, standing desks with panoramic screens, and arrangement of furniture at home or office
