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Occupational Therapy Insights


Sep 30, 2020

After watching this video, do you have any OT recommendations, ideas to adaptive equipment, energy conservation.....let’s chat!!

SUMMATION:

A young lady whose leg swelled to a massive 150lb has vowed to restart her life after enduring a radical twelve-hour operation to remove the growth. Jamila Coleman, 27, spent nearly four years watching the world through a window after a rare form of lymphedema caused her leg to balloon to 3ft-wide below the knee. Despite her condition progressively worsening, insurers refused to cover an operation until earlier this year when surgeons finally removed 120lbs of flesh and fluid