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PT Classroom - An Introduction to the National AgrAbility Project ׀ by Jeff Bayers, SPT, Susan Rowntree, SPT, Amanda Warner, SPT |
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An Introduction to the National AgrAbility Project |
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We are UW-Madison physical
therapy students who recently embarked on a community
service project with AgrAbility through UW-Extension to
create an educational pamphlet for physical therapists who
treat rural patients or who may have rural direct access
patients utilize their clinics. AgrAbility is a nationally
funded program with a vision “...to enable a lifestyle of
high quality for farmers, ranchers and other agricultural
workers with disabilities, so that they, their families, and
their communities continue to succeed in rural America”.
AgrAbility encompasses a breadth of conditions that we can
regularly see in the physical therapy profession including
arthritis, spinal cord injuries, back impairments and other
musculoskeletal injuries. Through this program, agricultural
workers may be able to obtain assistive technology for their
equipment, individualized assistance programs for job
restructuring and peer support and identification of
resource funding. As health care professionals, we should
have knowledge about the federal resources that are
specifically available for the farming population. Take a
look at AgrAbility’s website to find out more about their
program and how we can collaborate with them to best serve
the rural population’s needs.
Click here for a copy the of AgrAbility pamphlet below
Last revised: May 15, 2011 |
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