Use pumpkins to address safety with your patient.

Simply scatter the pumpkins around the room at various heights.

Now use to assess your patients safety skills and educate them on:

• Locking wheelchair brakes

• AE use

• Over stretched reaching

• Asking for help

• Navigating a FWW/Wheelchair

• Getting close to the item

• Stability

• Visual scanning

• Etc

Exercises but make it fun and festive🎃

Use pumpkins to facilitate upper body and lower body functional movements for strengthening and activity tolerance benefits.

Treatment Ideas with Bows!

• Reacher

• Obstacle Course

• Dressing skills

• Functional reaching and balance

• Laundry

• Cognitive skills

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Perform in standing or seated. Instruct your patient to fold and staple hearts.

To facilitate:

• Fine motor skills

• Bilateral coordination

• Standing tolerance

• Activity tolerance

• Following instructions

• Seated / standing balance

• Core strength / trunk control

• Task initiation

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Decorate the therapy gym for an Olympic Games.

Perform in Individual treatment session or in group setting and make it a competition.

Game ideas:

• Shuffle board

• Balloon volley

• Timed obstacle course

• Javelin toss with pool noodle

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