To help you conduct accurate searches we have provided some further information
about topics included under each heading:
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Heading |
Description |
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Assistive technology / adaptive equipment |
Item, piece of equipment, or product system used to maintain or improve a client’s
functional ability (eg computer, environmental control unit, wheelchair, seating
and basic self-care equipment). |
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Basic activities of daily living |
Interventions designed to improve or enable self-maintenance such as showering,
dressing, toileting, and eating. Also known as personal or primary activities of
daily living. |
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Behavioural interventions |
Interventions designed to modify behaviour. Strategies for children and adults are
included. |
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Carers |
Interventions designed, for example, to improve the performance, function or quality
of life of informal or formal carers. Includes support groups, education and training. |
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Case management |
A service model referring to the assignment of a healthcare provider to coordinate
and provide individualised service delivery. |
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Cognition |
Interventions designed to improve or optimise cognitive skills, including memory,
orientation, attention, reasoning and problem solving. Includes cognitive development,
remediation of cognitive skills, and compensatory strategies such as diary use. |
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Community living skills |
Interventions designed to improve or enable the performance of community living
skills such as shopping, banking, budgeting, use of public transport or driving. |
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Complementary therapies |
Includes therapies such as aromatherapy, horticultural therapy, and pet therapy. |
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Consumer education |
Educational interventions for clients, their carers, family or parents intended,
to enhance, for example, skills and knowledge, or to change behaviour and attitudes. |
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Counselling |
Interventions that use interpersonal relationships to provide support and enable
people to resolve crises, increase their ability to solve problems and make decisions. |
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Creative therapies |
Interventions using creative modalities such as music, dance therapy, art, and craft. |
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Developmental therapy |
Interventions designed to facilitate development for children and adults. Includes
neurodevelopmental therapy, sensory integration and vestibular stimulation. |
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Ergonomics |
Interventions designed to improve the fit between the person and task at work or
home. Also referred to as human factors, or human engineering. |
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Exercise/ Strength training |
Interventions designed to improve or maintain general health and fitness, such as
strength training, therapeutic exercise, and aerobic and fitness training. |
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Hand therapy |
Includes all aspects of hand therapy intervention such as splinting, passive and
active exercises, and mobilisation. |
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Health promotion / risk assessment |
Interventions aimed at promoting health or preventing illness/disability. |
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Home modification / access |
Interventions designed to enhance performance, minimise or prevent risks and hazards,
or improve mobility in the home, property, workplace, or health facility. Includes,
for example, ramps, rails, and stair-climbers. |
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Instrumental activities of daily living |
Interventions designed to optimise performance in activities in and around the home
such as cleaning, laundry, and meal preparation. Also known as extended or secondary
activities of daily living. |
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Leisure / recreation |
Intervention designed to improve the performance, uptake or participation in hobbies,
leisure or recreational activities. Also refers to the therapeutic use of these
activities. |
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Movement training |
Interventions designed to elicit or improve motor control. Includes motor relearning,
constraint induced movement therapy, and facilitation techniques such as PNF, Brunnstrom,
Bobath, and functional electrical stimulation (FES). |
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Perception |
Interventions designed to develop or remediate a person’s perceptual skills (that
is, the ability to recognise and interpret sensory stimuli). |
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Physical modalities / orthotics / splinting |
Interventions using physical modalities such as splinting, casting, orthotics, pressure
garments, compression bandaging, scar management techniques, transcutaneous electrical
nerve stimulation (TENS), functional electrical stimulation (FES), EMG, hydrotherapy,
and biofeedback. |
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Positioning |
Refers to the positioning of a person or a part of his or her body for therapeutic
purposes. |
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Play |
Therapeutic use of play or interventions designed to develop play skills. |
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Psychosocial techniques |
Psychosocial interventions such as cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT), anger management,
group discussion, social skills training, and relaxation training. |
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Purposeful activity |
Evaluation of the effectiveness of purposeful activity as a motivating therapeutic
medium, as opposed to non-purposeful activity. Purposeful activities include those
that have an inherent goal and are relevant and meaningful to the person, beyond
the function required to carry out the activity.
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Relaxation / stress management |
Interventions designed to reduce anxiety, muscular tension, and stress. Includes
all forms of relaxation and stress management techniques such as muscular relaxation,
and the use mental strategies (e.g. imagery). |
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Sensation |
Interventions such as sensory retraining, desensitisation, sensory integrative therapy
and the utilisation of sensory modalities. |
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Service delivery |
Evaluation of methods and models of service delivery for example, individual vs.
groups, hospital vs. community care, peer-led programs, and length of interventions. |
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Skill acquisition / training |
Interventions designed to help a person develop new skill/s, relearn or refine skill/s. |
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Social skills |
Interventions designed to enhance social skills. Includes interventions such as
assertiveness training, anger management, and conflict resolution. |
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Soft tissue therapy |
Interventions designed to prevent, reverse or reduce contractures, pain or stiffness.
Includes interventions such as prolonged muscle stretching, massage, and myofascial
techniques. |
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Vocational retraining / work |
Interventions designed to improve work potential or performance. Includes vocational
retraining, occupational rehabilitation, workplace/industrial issues, volunteering,
and occupational health and safety training and education. |
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Other |
Interventions that do not belong to any of the above categories. |