Category: Pain Management

Pain Management

Why Do I Hurt? Spanish-Language eBook is Now Available

Written by pain science expert Adriaan Louw, PT, PhD, Why Do I Hurt? from OPTP, Minneapolis, is now available as a Spanish-language eBook, translated from English.

Pain Management

New Reality for Pain Management

Emerging technologies help therapists provide interventions that go beyond skin-deep, according to Stephen Clark, PT, DPT, ATC, in this feature for the January/February 2021 issue of Rehab Management.

Pain Management

Keep the Wrist Moving with This New Device

Two mechanical engineering assistant professors at the University of Iowa have created a robotic device that they suggest could give people with limb impairment a wider range of motion. The Daily Iowan reports their story.

Acute, Chronic

Necessary But Insufficient: Guideline-Based Care for Pain Management

Clinical practice guidelines emerged 30 years ago. However, Thomas R. Denninger asks, if care based on those guidelines is so great, why isn’t everyone doing it? A feature for the January/February 2020 issue of Rehab Management.

Products, Technology

The Soothie° Cushion Offers Hot and Cold Therapy While at Home or Traveling

Special Needs Group/Special Needs at Sea (SNG) ― a medical equipment and supply company, and a global provider of wheelchair, scooter, oxygen, and other special needs equipment rentals ― is now the exclusive distributor of the Soothie° Cushion, according to a news release.

Education

School of Occupational Therapy Employs Creativity in Time of Pandemic

The School of Occupational Therapy at the University of Indianapolis has developed a creative solution for Master of Occupational Therapy (MOT) students to complete their required fieldwork, it reports.