Toru Sueyoshi, BSc(OT), MSc <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Research area: Paediatric Prosthetic hands Use and Developmental prehension patterns <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Based at University of Southampton <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Supervisors: Prof. Cheryl Metcalf and Dr Donovan-Hall <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I completed pre-registered Occupational therapy degree and worked clinically as an OT in hand therapy and paediatrics in Japan. After some years of clinical experience, I travelled in Canada and New Zealand for 2 years and a half and explored OT practice outside my country. I returned to Japan in 2018 and went back to my clinical practice at orthopaedic clinics and did research at the University of Tokyo. After I had the opportunity to work with a considerable number of children with prosthetics in Japan and Canada, it reassured me that this is the field I want to pursue my career. However, it was also at this time that I realised the true breadth and complexity of the field. On top of the psychological challenges that patients undergo, I am acutely aware of the difficulties of providing well-trailered, prosthetic hand treatment and training, based on children and their parents\u2019 true needs. To deepen my knowledge in this field, I decided to pursue my master\u2019s in Amputation and Prosthetic Rehabilitation at the University of Southampton and complete it in 2022. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
My eventual goal in my doctoral training is to develop an outcome measure for children using prosthetic hands. Growing up with prosthetic hands in childhood is a unique experience. Unfortunately, many children abandon their prosthetic hands because they often have difficulty performing meaningful child occupations with their prescribed prosthetic hands (e.g., play). In my doctoral project, I am developing a new upper limb prosthetic outcome measure, co-designed with children and their parents throughout the development process, to ensure that actual child occupational needs are at the core of the new outcome measure. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Toru Sueyoshi, BSc(OT), MSc Research area: Paediatric Prosthetic hands Use and Developmental prehension patterns Based at University of Southampton Supervisors: Prof. Cheryl Metcalf and Dr Donovan-Hall I completed pre-registered Occupational therapy degree and worked clinically as an OT in hand therapy and paediatrics in Japan. After some years of clinical experience, I travelled in Canada […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":317,"featured_media":402,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cohort-4"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n