Cindi Petito – Occupational Therapist and Wheelchair Specialist – USA This week we are celebrating OT Week in the United Kingdom with OT Expert. To help raise awareness of the OT profession around the world, I featured an article about my life as an occupational therapist and wheelchair specialist. OT Expert “aims [...]
Filed under: General, Industry News, Publications by Cindi Petito, OTR/L, ATP, CAPS Tuesday, November 6th, 2012
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Seating Solutions and Apex Home Care together with the ALSA Florida Chapter are developing an ALS Specialty Home Health Pilot Program Over the last 2 years, Seating Solutions, Apex Home Care, and Mederi Caretenders have been working together with the ALSA Florida Chapter to improve the continuum of care throughout the disease progression. Through our [...]
Filed under: General, Industry News, Publications by Cindi Petito, OTR/L, ATP, CAPS Monday, September 17th, 2012
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Derian, who is an Occupational Therapy student from the University of Florida, has completed her specialty internship with us to learn about being a wheeled mobility and seating specialist! We had a lot of fun during these last 6 weeks! It’s hard to believe it is already over! Even though the time was fast [...]
Filed under: General, Industry News by Cindi Petito, OTR/L, ATP, CAPS Saturday, September 8th, 2012
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Working together is key to advocacy and the success of the Separate Benefit Category for Complex Rehab Technology NRRTS Directions Magazine, Vol 4, 2012. Pg 40 It’s been a busy 2 years! And we’re not done yet….. Working with AOTA and the Clinician’s Task Force (CTF) in efforts to support the success of the Separate [...]
Filed under: General, Industry News, Publications by Cindi Petito, OTR/L, ATP, CAPS Sunday, August 19th, 2012
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AOTA wants comments from occupational therapists who work in the area of evaluating and recommending power mobility devices for patients. Since the announcement of the Power Mobility Demonstration Project and the development of an Electronic Clinical Power Mobility Device Template document, there have been several open door forums to allow healthcare and durable medical equipment [...]
Filed under: General, Industry News, Power Mobility by Cindi Petito, OTR/L, ATP, CAPS Tuesday, July 24th, 2012
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This past April at our national AOTA conference, two motions were passed that will change the way OTs work in the field of Complex Rehab Technology (CRT). When Tamara Kittelson-Aldred and I wrote these two motions, we had no idea the impact this would make. We are so proud to be a part of this [...]
Filed under: Industry News by Cindi Petito, OTR/L, ATP, CAPS Tuesday, October 4th, 2011
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