"Occupational Therapy for Stroke"

On this week's show, we chat with Megan K. Young, Occupational Therapy Supervisor at Providence St. Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, CA.Ms. Young received her Master’s of Arts in Occupational Therapy from University of Southern California in 2010, began her professional OT career in the pediatric setting, but had a desire to work with the adult population in a hospital setting and made the transition in 2013. She has experience working in acute care, acute rehabilitation, and home health settings.

Topics covered in this episode include:

- occupational therapy techniques used in the hospital immediately following a stroke

- "learned non-use" of an affected limb- mirror therapy

- exercises that a stroke survivor should do to maintain range of motion

- what a caregiver can do to help a stroke survivor regain greater use of an affected limb- techniques that stroke survivors can do to regain movement in their hand and/or arm and much more!

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