Specialist Occupational Therapist | Neuro and Critical Care Specialities 🏥 | 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️| All views and opinions are my own.
South East England
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Leigh Connors🐝 retweeted
On the final day of #OccupationalTherapyWeek2024
Today's theme is a super interesting one #delirium & was prepared by @EmmaBtheOT &myself
'Better Understanding of: The Role of Occupational Therapy in ICU Acquired Delirium'
@ICUsteps
@ICS_updates
@GSTT_ICU
@otstephaniemy
Leigh Connors🐝 retweeted
Day 4 #OccupationalTherapyWeek2024
Today's iteration of @theRCOT theme is:
Better Understanding of: The role Of Occupational Therapy in ICU Survivorship
Life after ICU is a journey for patient to adapt to their new levels of occupational performance &return to community dwelling
Leigh Connors🐝 retweeted
Happy Occupational Therapy week to all my amazing OT friends & colleagues!
Our @OT_DGT team is out promoting their profession this week 💚
@DarentValleyHsp @Leanne_OT @LeightheOT @AndreaAshman @DGTAHPs
#OTWeek2024
Leigh Connors🐝 retweeted
To celebrate #occupationaltherapyweek2024
we have decided to spend each day of OT week helping the wider #MDT understand the #valueofOT , alongside the theme from @theRCOT
Day 2:
Better Understanding of: The role of occupational therapy in Non Invasive Ventilaton by Corliss
Leigh Connors🐝 retweeted
💪🏽🏋🏽♀️REHAB NOVEMBER 2024💚💙
- promote importance of rehabilitation on ICU
- MDT learning
This weeks topic is; “How to prevent boredom”
@uhltherapy @AicuLri @SandraSpeller1 @Leic_hospital
Leigh Connors🐝 retweeted
Such interesting work looking at symptoms on day 1 after ICU discharge - lots of reasons for funding downstream ICU recovery services…
#ICUrehab24Oslo
Leigh Connors🐝 retweeted
#MDT Teamwork makes the dreamwork in #ICURehab 💪
But it needs a full #MDT in every trust personalised care and a humanised environment
We also need to challenge wider team #Understanding of #Rehab
Not everyone in healthcare knows what rehab is !
#Rehablegend #ICURehab24
Leigh Connors🐝 retweeted
The ICU Rehab Advent Calendar is online
Behind every door, a little rehab exercise for body and mind is hidden.
Free pdf download in German, English, Portuguese, and Polish, created by an amazing team of #rehablegends
icu-rehab.de/Download/downlo…
Great first day with @musedNeuroOT and Fiona! Love chatting about neuroanatomy and neuropsychology 💕🧠
Leigh Connors🐝 retweeted
Neuropathies around shoulder
Suprascapular nerve👉lateral shoulder pain & atrophy of supraspinatus/infraspinatus
Musculocutaneous nerve👉weakness of forearm flexion/supination & sensory loss of lateral forearm
Long Thoracic nerve👉Winging of scapula
clinicalgate.com/mononeuropa…
Leigh Connors🐝 retweeted
Hand grip strength (HGS): a new vital sign of health?
HGS
▶️important biomarker of health
▶️identification of diverse health issues throughout the lifespan
▶️potential as a new vital sign
Associations of hand grip strength with health-related metrics👇🏼
jhpn.biomedcentral.com/artic…
Leigh Connors🐝 retweeted
Testing our new magic table for our ITU patients, making #rehab more accessible #righttorehab @DGTPhysio @DGTAHPs
Important discussion ⬇️
New national suicide figures are published today in a series of reports.
Headline message from @ONS is a rise in 2023, the highest rate since 1999.
But, taken together, the reports tell a more complex story. Short 🧵
Leigh Connors🐝 retweeted
Nerves of upper limb
A. Major nerves in the arm & forearm
B. Anterior & posterior areas of skin innervated by major peripheral nerves in the arm and forearm
#anatomy #upperlimb #nerve
clinicalgate.com/upper-limb-…
