OT conversations

Common Fractures: Are you aware of them? You should :)

31 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of 'Occupational Therapy Conversations,' We talk about my experience while working as a locum in an adult physical dysfunction facilit...

The Disconnect in OT Documentation Practices: Perhaps We Should Think

29 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Hao, an occupational therapist, discusses the importance and complexities of documentation in the field. He highlights issues such as clarity, digital...

The business of cognitive assessments and other standardised tools

27 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of Occupational Therapy Conversations, we explore the world of cognitive assessments. We look at the possible business of standardized...

Understanding dermatomes

24 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of OT conversations, we look at dermatomes. Learn how different areas of the body correspond to specific nerve roots on the spinal cor...

Myotomes

23 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, We discuss the key muscles affected by spinal cord injuries at various levels. I explain the specific muscles and their functions, su...

My journey as a locum Occupational Therapist

20 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of OT Conversations, Hao, an occupational therapist, discusses his experiences working as a locum in the United Kingdom. He details th...

Understanding Apraxia

18 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of OT Conversations, Hao, an Occupational Therapist, discusses the concept of praxis and its various forms, focusing on its relevance ...

Constraint Induced Movement Therapy in a nutshell

16 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, Hao, an occupational therapist, introduces Constraint Induced Movement Therapy (CIMT) as an effective method for stroke recovery. CIM...

Advocacy: A lifelong responsibility of an Occupational Therapist

14 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of Occupational Therapy Conversations, Hao discusses his personal and professional dedication to the field. He emphasizes that occupat...

The 4 Roles and of an Occupational Therapist and the 14 profiles on which it is looked at

12 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of Occupational Therapy Conversations, discusses the various roles an occupational therapist takes on, both inside and outside the hos...

Critical Care and Occupational Therapy: Insights from the AOTA's Position Statement

11 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of 'Occupational Therapy Conversations,' Hao, an occupational therapist, delves into the American Occupational Therapy Association's (...

Work Ethics and Professionalism in Occupational Therapy

10 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of OT Conversations, Hao, your occupational therapist, delves into general work ethics. Hao discusses the accountability of therapists...

Anticipatory over reflective clinical reasoning

10 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of Occupational Therapy Conversations, we discuss the importance of clinical reasoning and we look at an anticipatory approach to lear...

Primitive Reflexes

30 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of OT Conversations, we discuss various pathological reflexes, including Babinski, Moro, Sucking, Rooting, Bite, and Grasp reflexes. T...

Principle-Based Documentation for Occupational Therapists

23 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Join us as we dive into the essentials of Hao's Principle Based Documentation particularly focusing on occupational therapy. Learn about the importanc...

Structuring OT goals using ABCD Format

16 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this OT Conversations episode, we have valuable tips on structuring and writing down your goals. Learn how to set effective goals using the ABCD me...

The 4 phases of the OT Process

08 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of OT Conversations, occupational therapist Hao discusses the four phases of the occupational therapy process: assessment, problem ide...

OT Models you can use in Critical Care: The Cognitive Disability Model

02 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of OT Conversations, the focus is on the Cognitive Disabilities Model, derived from Claudia Allen's Cognitive Disability Frame of Refe...

Rancho Los Amigos: Can we use it in critical care

28 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, I talk about the Rancho Los Amigos Scale for assessing cognitive functioning, particularly in cases of delirium. It details the eight...

OT Frame of References and Models you can use

19 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode lists and provides an overview of some OT models and frames of reference that you can use in physical dysfunction, particularly in cri...

Ethical Principles OTs must know

12 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, I compare and refer to professional standards for occupational therapy practice conduct and ethics. I attempted to compare the ethica...

Conversations with and OTD student

05 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this discussion, Cassandra, an OTD (Occupational Therapy Doctorate) student, shares insights into the unique OTD program, its distinctions from oth...

5 Technical skills OTs must have

28 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The episode discusses the key skills needed by occupational therapists, including needing to learn about the professional philosophical foundation, co...

Discharge Options for OTs

21 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This episode of OT Conversations looks into various patient discharge options and scenarios encountered by occupational therapists in NHS. Hao discus...

Effectively Manage OT Students: 12 Tips for OT Educators

15 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The session gives 12 tips for occupational therapy educators on how to effectively mentor their students. It begins with understanding the motivations...

Your Journey to Becoming a Successful Occupational Therapist

07 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, I provide tips and guidance for students and aspiring occupational therapists, covering topics such as understanding occupational the...

Tips to improve your restorative treatment planning

01 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The session provides tips for occupational therapists on conducting restorative interventions, focusing on tasks like dressing, combing hair, and bott...

What if we work as private OTs?

25 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Imagine if we start working as a private OT in an NHS hospital setting. Will this change our productivity, work efficiency and work ethics?

Advocating Occupational Therapy in paediatric setting

18 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, 2 OTs talk about the experience of another in the challenges of OT in an acute paediatric setting and how the service appears to have...

Exploring Diabetes

09 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, I talk to Kim and we talked about a case of a patient who has diabetes. We explored what could be the role of Occupational Therapy to...

The 4 Facets of Clinical Reasoning

26 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Do you want to be better at clinical reasoning? There are 4 simple things that you need to consider. In this episode, Hao explores clinical reasoning...

Student discovering OT model of practice in action

19 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Seeing model of practice in action for the first time is a eureka moment for any aspiring Occupational Therapist. In this episode, a student is shown...

What you need to know about treatment planning

17 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Do you know how plan your treatment? how do you do it? what are the parameters? In this episode I explore treatment planning and looked at areas that ...

More talk on Neurological examination

25 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

let us have more neuro talk

Are OTs not interested in the Tools of their trade?

11 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Every professional has a tool and it seems like OTs are not interested to learn about the tools of their trade. You really need to learn about the to...

Enabling Activities: The Missing Part of OT Rehabilitation

10 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

You wanted to do your ADL retraining but your patients are not yet ready so, you either delay the session or, you do joint session with Physios. Ther...

Joint Working: I am not a fan!

03 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Have you noticed that you do a lot of joint working? Well, I am not a fan and I tell you the reasons why.

Tips for Better documentation

26 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Are you having difficulty writing your notes when you are doing your ADL assessment and retraining? Maybe these tips are for you?

Talking Acceptable Risks

19 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Do you find it difficult to take risks when you are making clinical decisions regarding OT interventions? In this Episode, I talk with a colleague OT,...

Vital Monitors

12 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Do you know the monitors attached to your patients in critical care? What are they and what are their purpose? Does it look daunting? It is really ver...

Discharge Planning. Love it or hate it

05 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Are you complaining about discharge planning? Are you one of those who say, "I did not study OT to do discharge planning!" perhaps this episode is for...

Parkinson's Disease

29 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

What do you know about Parkinson's Disease? This talk covers the basics of Parkinson's and may it help you in your day to day practice

Only If You are Really Serious About Stroke

19 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Do you really want to learn about stroke? Are you really serious? Are you really committed to know about it so you can better your practice? This epis...

Cognitive Disability Frame of Reference

10 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Do you want to know more about cognition? have you heard about different cognitive levels?In this episode, I talk about a Frame of reference called Co...

How We Justified Care Package for an Independent Patient

01 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"Does my patient need carers when she is independent? I could not justify getting and requesting a carer for her? She and her family are so difficult!...

Let's have a quick talk about Strength

26 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

What is strength? how do you measure it? How do you grade it? In this episode, I briefly talk about strength and some aspects about it that I hope you...

A Different take on OT Referrals

24 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Do you really need a referral? This is my rant regarding the process of 'OT referral' and how I think it is limiting our efficiency when responding to...

Stages of Occupational Therapy Treatment in Rehabilitation

04 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

How do you do your intervention? Is there is there a formula? Is there anything out there that can guide you?In this episode, I talk about, the long f...

Exploring Occupational Therapy in Major Trauma Pediatric Service

31 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"What can I do in a paediatric trauma centre as an OT? Is there a room for us in the area?."In this episode, I had a conversation with Weng, an OT who...

Joint Range: Knowing the Values

31 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Your treatment is to do passive stretching or do PROMs. DO you know the ROM values?In this episode, we discuss the normal values of joint ranges. As r...

Sharing my process in early OT input in critical care

26 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, I share my initial thought process when I work in early phase of OT in critical care.

Reflections on Critical Care Assessment

16 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

One of the common questions in the practice of OT in critical care is what are the assessments that and OT can do? I have noticed that this tends clin...

Animal Spirits of Band 6s

12 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

I have been very reluctant in sharing this but this, I find to be a true pattern among progressing clinicians. Is it character? Is it personality? Or ...

OT Student's Critical Care Clinical Placement Experience

08 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This is a quite a rare opportunity to interview a student who had their clinical placement in a challenging clinical area, critical care. In this epi...

The Case that presented with Confusion or was that Apraxia?

05 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This is an actual case when the nurses thought the patient was confused. It talks about the case that presented with Apraxia and the assessment techni...

Know the Signs and Symptoms of Perceptual Deficits

02 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This episode talks about some of the Perceptual deficits that OTs may encounter in their practice. It is not an exhaustive but it is a start. It is in...

Overview of Speech Disturbances for Occupational Therapists

29 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, I share with you some symptoms of impairment with speech. It will be helpful to any clinicians who want to build a vocabulary of ter...

Overview of Neurological conditions and Impairment

25 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This episode talks about the various neurological conditions. We talk about some of the symptoms associated with the neurological symptoms and we talk...

Stroke Awareness

21 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, we talk about stroke and we have an overview of the condition. We try to define Stroke, they types, the symptoms, how it is diagnosed...

The Visual Subsystem

18 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This is a brief talk about the visual subsystem. This is more of an insight of things related to visual subsystem and was recorded late at night with ...

Cognitive Perceptual Deficits for OT

15 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"I like to learn about cognitive rehab." This what most OTs would say. People make themselves expert of cognition and yet, they under estimate the val...

dirty tricks at work

11 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, I talk to you about the dirty tricks that people use at work. They may be conscious or unconsciously applied. I gave this a lot of th...

Biomechanical Restorative Treatment: a quick guide for OTs

07 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode we talk about restorative treatment using Biomechanical Frame of Reference. it talks about some restorative principles for problems wi...

Right Staff with the Right Stuff, Right Stuff for the Right Staff

04 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This episode explores one aspect on how to maintain the quality of the service with the current trend and challenges with NHS.

Understanding Motor Behaviour

01 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode we name various motor behaviors and we link it to specific part of the brain. This will help you understand and name the motor behavio...

Tools of Occupational Therapy Trade

22 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

As Occupational Therapy is a 'Trade' and a profession, surely it has tools that it utilizes. This episode discusses the tools of Occupational Therapy.

Understanding Cognition

15 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This episode gives an overview of the performance component called cognition to guide and equip clinicians with terminologies that you can use in prac...

Overview of Performance Components

10 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This episode talks about performance components - the little parts that make up the a task. Knowing the performance component will enable an OT to dev...

What to look for When Doing OT Assessment and Planning OT Treatment

04 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, I talk to you about the 4 parameters on where you base your assessment and intervention of a person's engagement with their ADLs. By ...

Understanding ADLs

02 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

What are ADLs from the perspective of an Occupational Therapist? We hear about it but what are they really? In this his episode, we talk about 15 ADL ...

A Model that could End your Search for Model of OT Practice

29 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, we talk about a very practical model of practice that defines all the interventions that OTs will do in a physical dysfunction settin...

Our Need to Define Occupational Therapy Core Input (COIN)

27 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This episode of OT conversations talks about the Core Input of Occupational Therapy in a hospital care setting. Here we discuss how knowing the core i...

Continuum of Care: The solution to understanding what you do wherever you work

24 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The episode talks about continuum of care. What it is and what are the responsibilities of an OT working in the varying continuum. This OT conversatio...

Tips on How to Educate OT Students

21 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In the United Kingdom, we usually come across OT students from different universities and teaching them is often complicated by the varying methods of...

Conditions to make a successful Multidisciplinary Team

19 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This episode talks about the 9 conditions that will make interdisciplinary team work. This podcast may be useful to OTs working with difficult teams. ...

Occupational Therapy in Critical Care Part 4: Replicable OT Programs in Critical Care

16 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this final part, I share with you 5 OT programs that you can consider replicating and using in your own critical care area. I have tried these pro...

Occupational Therapy in Critical Care Part 3: Types of Occupational Therapy Treatment and the Modalities on how Treatments are Delivered in a critical care area.

14 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Part 3 of OT in Critical Care Talks about an overview of the types of Occupational Therapy treatment and the modalities on how treatments are delivere...

Occupational Therapy in Critical Care Part 2: Commencing, Frequency and Termination of OT input in Critical Care

12 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This is part 2 of 4 part discussion about OT in Critical Care. Part 2 talks about when can OT commence in critical care and when can an OT start seein...

Occupational Therapy in Critical Care Part 1: General Critical Care Objective and Reasons Why OT can get Involved in Critical Care.

10 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This is a 4 part podcast discussion Occupational Therapy in Critical Care. Part 1 explores the general Objective in Critical Care, the limitation of O...

RAMPS: a simple way to explain and promote Occupational Therapy Intervention

07 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Here I talk about 5 categories of Occupational Therapy intervention. If you are a clinician who will take on new students, this is invaluable because ...