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Cognitive Treatment: Is It Covered?

Reimbursement policies for SLP-provided cognitive assessment and treatment depend on payer, facility, patient’s diagnosis and type of treatment.

from ASHA

Speech-language pathologists evaluate and treat communication difficulties related to many causes, including cognitive deficits resulting from conditions such as dementia, stroke and traumatic brain injury. Although assessment and treatment of cognitive deficits are clearly in SLPs’ scope of practice, some public and private payers are putting up roadblocks to reimbursement for these services.

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Intensive Speech Therapy Helps Months after Stroke

Chronic aphasia, the inability to understand or express speech well due to brain damage from stroke, affects about 30 percent of stroke survivors.

from Reuters

Even months after a stroke, survivors can make major strides in communication and quality of life with intensive speech therapy, a recent study in Germany suggests.

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Study: Manual Therapy Works as Well as, and Sometimes Better than, Surgery for Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

Following a year of physical therapy treatment, patients with carpal tunnel syndrome achieved results on par with those who had surgery for the same condition.

from PT in Motion

Authors of a new study on carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) say that when you toss out the splints, steroid injections, lasers, and other treatments often lumped in with physical therapy as part of a “conservative” approach and focus solely on a debate about surgery vs specific multimodal physical therapy, physical therapy makes a compelling case for itself.

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The Real Reasons Autism Rates Are Up in the U.S.

A hard look at whether the rise comes from more awareness, better diagnosis—or something else.

from Scientific American

The prevalence of autism in the United States has risen steadily since researchers first began tracking it in 2000. The rise in the rate has sparked fears of an autism ‘epidemic.’ But experts say the bulk of the increase stems from a growing awareness of autism and changes to the condition’s diagnostic criteria.

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The Truth About the Importance of Voice

The moment we open our mouths to speak, we are judged.

from Medium

It’s no secret. Synthetic voices baked into today’s augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) applications are unnatural and robotic sounding. As SLPs, Behavior Therapists, and Assistive Technology professionals this problem is magnified when we reflect upon the profound importance of voice communication.

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Pain: Everything Works, but Nothing is Effective

Treating pain is challenging, but doing what we have always done will not move us to better care with these individuals.

from Evidence in Motion

When treating patients, some therapists love their treatment of choice and share their testimonials of how it works. While other therapists love to bash that treatment of choice and share the research on how that treatment has not been shown to be effective. I don’t even want to begin the laundry list of “tools” in the “toolbox” that PTs seem to pile up course after course when learning to treat their patients in pain. My hope is one day we can move past the methods (tools) of treating an individual in pain and understand the principles that can help. After attending #APTACSM 2017 in San Antonio this year, I continue to wonder if many therapists struggle with how their methods/tools fit into the principles of pain neuroscience.

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Yoga and ADHD

Practicing yoga can provide significant benefits for children with ADHD.

from Your Therapy Source

Yoga incorporates breathing techniques, postural control, muscle strengthening, flexibility and cognitive control which can help promote self-control, attention, body awareness, and stress management. These are all skills that are beneficial for children with ADHD to practice.

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Darwin Is a Robot Physical Therapy Assistant to Help Kids with Cerebral Palsy

The use of pint-sized robots in pediatric therapy can encourage children to play an active role in physical therapy.

from Digital Trends

Could robots have a future helping kids with pathologies like cerebral palsy, a condition that often involves impaired muscle coordination and other disabilities? Researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology think so.

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