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Posted by Gary S Solomon, MBA, MS, OTR/L, CHT on May 25, 2015
Impressive!
That was the recurrent thought in my head as I browsed through the latest edition of the ASHT Times. While the magazine's content has consistently been clinically relevant and informative, the PDF format of the electronic editions often made it challenging to scroll through pages, as…
Posted by Kendyl Brock Hunter, OTR/L, CHT on May 18, 2015
How often do we get requests to vote for something -- our favorite product line, a proxy vote for investments, a new board of trustees, organizational ballots and, of course our local, state and federal legislative ballots? We are so bombarded with requests to vote that this privilege we hold at…
Posted by Heidi Hermann Wright, MBA, OTR, CHT on May 10, 2015
Hand Therapy Week was launched in 1993 in an effort to increase public awareness of our advanced specialty. I imagine if we asked friends, physicians and patients, “What is a hand therapist?” the vast majority would not be able to differentiate us from an occupational therapist or a physical…
Posted by Kimberly Turner Quevedo on May 03, 2015
As Evelyn Mackin, LPT, explained in the first Nathalie Barr Lecture in 1986, “Listening, explaining and touching the patient truly represents the art of hand therapy.” This interaction with the patient is what motivated Eugene Boeglin, DPT, OCS to become involved in hand therapy.
“The patients are…
Posted by Jane Fedorczyk, PT, PhD, CHT, ATC on April 26, 2015
Last week, I represented ASHT at the 95th Annual Conference of the American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA). It was reported that more than 9,100 attendees converged on the Music City Center in Nashville, TN – the highest attendance to date, according to AOTA. Taking into account that there…