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Award Winning Public Education Campaign Of American Speech-Language Hearing Association To Hit Airwaves Anew

2/25/2007


TV, Radio PSAs To Warn About Hearing Loss Risk From
Misuse of Personal Audio Technology

One Depicting A Tattoo Session Gone Bad Uses Humor To Convey A Serious Message

Rockville, MD - January 29, 2007 - In the wake of reports that the 2006 holiday shopping season included record sales of personal audio technology products like the iPod, the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) has produced and disseminated nationwide television and radio public service announcements (PSAs) about the importance of safeguarding one's hearing when listening to the technology.

Set in a fictionalized tattoo parlor, fifteen and thirty second TV spots depict humorous unintended consequences from listening to an MP3 player at high volume. A young man receives the wrong tattoo due to miscommunication between him and the tattoo artist. The whole time, both are listening to MP3 players set at high volume.

Meanwhile, the radio spots compare the sound levels produced by personal audio technology with that from other sources–a soda can, a tattoo gun, a motorcycle and a chain saw. By doing so, they make a compelling point about the amount of noise that goes into the ear when the technology is played too loudly.

The PSAs are the latest phase of "America: Tuned in Today…But Tuned Out Tomorrow?", an ASHA public education campaign about the potential risk of hearing loss from unsafe usage of personal audio technology.

To date, key campaign elements have included www.listentoyourbuds.org, an interactive bilingual website for young children, parents, and educators; two national polls on usage habits and attitudes and subsequent video news packages; and, a presentation at the first ever national conference on noise induced hearing loss in children. The campaign has drawn global media coverage, and was the reason why ASHA won a 2007 Associations Advance America Award of Excellence from the American Society of Association Executives.

Nature as an Occupational Therapy Modality

By Jane Sorensen, PhD, OTR, ND

I am planning on getting a naturopathic degree from a distance learning college. Would you tell why you decided on getting that degree, where you did your ND degree, and how that practice fits in with OT?


Sure! I've received a number of emails asking about OT and naturopathy. Glad to know you have heard of naturopathic medicine!

I had not heard of naturopathy or naturopathic doctors until about 18 years ago, when I had been in my OT practice over 20 years. It turns out that was, in part, because I was in New York, which did not license (and still doesn't) naturopathic medicine. It is only licensed in 13 states.

I called the New York OT Board to ask about learning to use herbs and incorporate them in my practice. They explained that recommending herbs to ingest would be practicing medicine without a license, and I could lose my OT license.

That information ruled out my idea of attending the University of Bridgeport in Connecticut, a two-hour commute from New York City, for a four-year clinical ND degree and becoming a naturopathic physician. Naturopathic physicians have primary practices, but only in the 13 states where they are licensed.

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Innovative Physical Therapy Relieves Back Pain
Monday, April 18, 2005

By Charlene Laino

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An innovative physical therapy technique may relieve back pain even when all other treatments fail.

The technique, called Souchard's global postural re-education -- or GPR for short -- employs a series of gentle movements to realign spinal column joints and strengthen and stretch muscles that have become tight and weak from underuse.

"GPR corrects the patient's posture and decompresses the spinal canal," says Conrado Estol, MD, PhD, of the Neurologic Center for Treatment and Rehabilitation in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He presented his study at the American Academy of Neurology 57th Annual Meeting.

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