My OT journey

As defined in our notes posture is the relative alignment of body parts. The ideal posture alignment is when the center of gravity is centered over the base of support. It's important that the spine keeps its normal curves because it ensures that the weight is evenly distributed throughout the body. There are two lordotic curves, which are convex and there are two kyphotic curves, which are concave. The order of these curves is lordotic, kyphotic, lordotic, and kyphotic again. These curves provide mobility and stability of the spine and ensures the client to independently participate in ADLs and iADLs. Another reason why it is important to teach a client proper posture and body mechanics is because it minimizes the risk of injury and/or progressive deformity. For example, if a client has poor posture and develops excessive thoracic kyphosis, which in lay terms is, "hunchback" or a "rounded" back. With this, the order of the curves goes kyphotic and then lord...

In this story the wife only has a thumb and a finger on her hand. Luckily, she still has a thumb as that is very important, functionally, because of it's relationship to the other digits. Let's assume that the other finger she has left is her third metacarpal otherwise known as the middle finger. The loss of her second metacarpal also known as the index finger accounts for 20% of hand dysfunction and affects many occupations as stated in our notes. In other words, while she was losing fingers in the bets with her husband we can only imagine how hard it was to adapt and adjust in her daily life. An occupation that would be affected by the losses of her fingers would be getting dressed. This would be difficult for her because many clothes include zippers like the dress that was in the room when they walked in. When you zip up a dress, bottoms, or tops you use your thumb and index finger in a tip pinch (pulp to pulp, 2 jaw chuck, pencil grip, etc). Since she is missing her index...