Purple Day (26th March) is a global initiative dedicated to raising epilepsy awareness. Purple Day was founded in 2008, by nine-year-old Cassidy Megan of Nova Scotia, Canada. Motivated by her own struggles with epilepsy, Cassidy started Purple Day in an effort to get people talking about the condition and to let those impacted by seizures […]
Continue reading →Can you drive the motorcycle with a prosthetic leg?At Williams Occupational Therapy, we are often asked to assess a rider with a prosthetic leg to see if he can get back on his motorbike. And more often than not, this question is due to the amputation of one of the rider’s legs. In a previous […]
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Back Pain and Driving When you have back pain, I mean a really, REALLY sore back, just about everything hurts. Even sitting down can be painful. Mix that with driving and it can be debilitating. Back pain has been the problem for many Williams Occupational Therapy clients over the years. We are going to share […]
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October 1, 2016, marked the revised edition of ‘Assessing Fitness to Drive” Guidelines – a much awaited joint publication of the National Transport Commission (NTC) and Austroads. Did this updated rendition sneak under your radar? It didn’t sneak past us! Here are the key take outs we got from this year’s changes and how it […]
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2016 Driving Forum On the 11th of November 2016, Occupational Therapy Australia held a driving forum in NSW. It was a great day where we got free giveaways like pens, stress balls, tape measures and even a torch. But more importantly, we had the opportunity to hear about many new things in the field of […]
Continue reading →Williams OT has been established since 2011, but do you want to know how it all got started? Brad Williams, Director of Williams OT, was asked to provide a talk to first year Occupational Therapy Students of Flinders University. The talk was to show what options might be available at the end of the uni […]
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