Browsing by Author "Gulick, Kristin"

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    A TRAINING PROGRESSION FOR THE UPPER LIMB PROSTHETIC USER
    (2005) Gulick, Kristin
    As we all know, each patient that we see in our practices is an individual and should be approached with a client-centered philosophy. During the early phases of rehabilitation, my role as an occupational therapist on the amputee rehabilitation team is to work with the patient to determine his or her view of their interaction with their environment and their occupation. This is an all encompassing view of their life. A person’s environment includes physical, social, cultural and institutional elements. A person’s occupation is any aspect of self-care, productivity, and leisure that is part of their life. Once we have a sense of the areas of importance to this person, an occupational therapist will analyze the key components and skills required for the patient to perform in these occupations. This analysis will lead to the development of an individualized rehabilitation program.
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    CASE STUDY: REGAINING INDEPENDENCE, A PATIENT WITH BILATERAL UPPER EXTREMITY LIMB LOSS
    (2008) Gulick, Kristin
    As advances in prosthetics are accelerating in the laboratory, research, and clinical settings, it is critical for the developers and medical providers to understand the setting in which the client with upper limb loss actually lives and functions. The perspective that we gain from observing the client in their unique environments should drive all that happens in our research and development labs and patient care clinics. A client’s ability to function when assessed outside of their environment is falsely impacted by challenges that they may not have to deal with in their environment or there may be modifications in our clinics to ease function that are not available to them at home. This case study presents a client with bilateral upper extremity limb loss. The focus will be on the rehabilitation that occurred in his home
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    Preliminary Findings from an Ongoing Outcomes Questionnaire for Clients Fit with Upper Limb Prostheses
    (2008) Wolfgram, Kristi; Gulick, Kristin
    Providing quality care to the patients who we serve is based on our technical and therapeutic skill and experience, evidence based practice, and ongoing feedback from the patients who use the devices that we fit and train them with. In order to provide quality care to upper extremity amputees and guide them towards prosthetic success, we must collect information from our own practices to support our approaches and assist in supporting the most current rehabilitation for our patients. An outcomes questionnaire was developed and implemented to be used on an ongoing basis with our patient population to insure quality of care and to provide us with information to guide future care of each patient and this population as a whole. This presentation will focus on preliminary findings of patient’s device self-selection and the functional tasks that patients use prosthetic devices for. Institute of Biomedical Engineering, University of New Brunswick, MEC '08 Measuring Success in Upper Limb Prosthetics Page