AmputeeOT: The Role of Occupational Therapy in Amputee Rehabilitaion

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[@jesspotter2013]

Thank you for this video! I'm in college for occupational therapy and I could never quite explain the difference between it and physical therapy.

[@juanfootjohn2125]

You have been my O.T. for A couple of months now. Thank you for all the useful advise and fun videos. that one video when you went fabric shopping after you left the clinic you got in your car. well I was crying with you. also my P.T. lady was asking me often where I was getting some information from. I would tell her the amputee O.T lady she knows because her leg is gone too. she never disagreed with you. she did tell me Juan your not there yet slow down. lol I know it's hard work making good content. Thank you for all you do.

[@emilyc6860]

I am not an amputee but am writing a novel in which the main character has an upper limb amputation. I found these videos very helpful! Do OTs also works with upper limb amputees. And, if so, how? Especially if the patient's dominant hand was lost.

[@eugenhilbertz678]

:) So now I know what the OT in your name ist standing for. For all the germans ... occupational therapist = Ergotherapeutin :)
I work with my OT a long time in mirror therapy.

[@wesleyjarboe9571]

I'm gonna comment, even though no one is likely to see it because of how old this video is.
I'm an aspiring author. The main character in one of the books I'm working on has bilateral, below the knee amputations. His legs end a few inches above where his ankles should be. I want the character to be realistic.
I've been using videos like this one for research materials on what his life would be like. I think your videos are well done and informative. I appreciate you taking the time to do this. Thank you.

[@sticky_fingers_0740]

I'm curious... How much has your approach toward therapies changed since your amputation? Especially now that you truly understand the challenges from the patients perspective.

[@jekll]

I had a conversation very similar to how you described your professional title. Once in grad school and once during an interview, I was asked to please not refer to them as Dr. (last name) and to please call me (my first name). One even made it a point to say, "My name is not Doctor."

[@conmanreckker]

Great video! I'm currently in an OTA program and have to write a research paper on Amputation and how OT's are involved!

[@enginesten]

Dear Dr.,
You are mkre incredible with each uodate and more beautiful.Morris

[@TheSteamtramman]

There are differences between UK and USA in the definition of OT. I take it with your accent you live in a city and treat people reasonably locally. One girl my late wife knew had lost her leg and living out in the wilds never saw anyone after the hospital. My wife never received any help as she deteriorated from tottering to crutches to a wheelchair - that's in the English countryside. They say with the cutbacks it's worse now......

[@jene24]

They should have been able to access an OT through social services and most likely would have had access to one during her stay in hospital.

[@nAturalz3]

Great vid! I've been an OT for 4 years now. It's such a rewarding career and I can't see myself doing anything else :-)

[@Oukow]

Thank you!

[@blackeyesL]

Hay wut is in ur ear ?

[@germandawg15]

Presumably a hearing aid. She has Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, which can cause hearing loss in some patients.

[@blair1278]

as an OT how do you deal with the sensitive situation of telling a new amputee, paraplegic, tetraplegia/quadriplegic that isn't just for now. it is for ever and its time to change and adjust to this new life with out saying this is for ever?
i have worked with a couple of Tetraplegia some have never accepted there injury and have pretty much given up and just exist and others have taken there accident as the change they needed in there life and have a total new outlook (one of which went back to uni to become a psychiatrist who specialises in helping other tetraplegia)
how do you change the former into the latter

[@sahttr_5097]

Thank You, i didnt know why the OT, neather the real definition of the profession, You got a great chanel, i be learning so much