Frederick Covington
- Degree
- MD
- Professional group
- doctor
- Fields of interest
- Anesthesiology, Angiology, Audiology, Balneology, Cardiac Surgery, Cardiology, Clinical Genetics, Clinical Immunology, Oncology, Clinical Pharmacology, Dermatology, Diabetology, Emergency Medicine, Endocrinology, Epidemiology, Family Medicine, Forensic Medicine, Gastroenterology, General Surgery, Geriatrics, Global Health, Gynecology, Healthcare innovations, Hematology, Hypertensiology, Infectious Diseases, Internal Medicine, Laboratory Diagnosis, Medical Microbiology, Medical Rehabilitation, Neonatology, Nephrology, Neurology, Neuropathology, Neurosurgery, Nuclear Medicine, Occupational Medicine, Ophthalmology, Orthopedics, Other, Otorhinolaryngology, Palliative Medicine, Pathology, Pediatrics, Pediatric Surgery, Phlebology, Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery, Colorectal surgery, Psychiatry, Pulmonology, Radiology, Radiotherapy, Rheumatology, Sexology, Sports Medicine, Surgical Oncology, Thoracic Surgery, Toxycology, Transfusion Medicine, Transplantation, Transport Medicine, Urology, Vascular Surgery
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- Biography
- Dr. Frederick B. Covington is an occupational therapist , award winning inventor, and author. He was born in a small southern town, a place where everyone knows everybody. Being reared in such a tight knit environment, he learned the true sense of community and togetherness. Following his grade school education, he moved to Washington, DC, to attend Howard University. After graduation, he formed Covington Enterprises Unlimited, and began his career in healthcare. His motto has always been, "Treat the patient, not the diagnosis".
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Inclusion: The Importance of Societal Participation
Inclusion is one of the most important things a society can allow for. It benefits all by allowing diverse peoples of varying abilities to contribute their special individual selves to the community....
Occupational Therapy, Diabetes, and Kidney Care: How OT Improves...
Occupational therapy (OT) and Diabetes care and maintenance goes hand-in-hand. OT’s can help people across the lifespan participate in the things they want and need to do through the therapeutic...
Why OTs Encourage Early Intervention
In early intervention, occupational therapy practitioners promote the function and engagement of infants and toddlers and their families in everyday routines by addressing areas of occupation, including...
THERAKEY: Bringing Occupational Therapy and Music Keyboarding Together
Therakey is a therapeutic program that incorporates basic music keyboarding with therapeutic activities and exercises. Through these exercises and activities patients and clients can develop, maintain,...
What is Visual Closure?
Dr. Covington elaborates on the importance of the perceptual skill of visual closure and how we utilize it in everyday life.
Let's Talk About Visual Perception
Dr. Covington discusses the ins and outs of visual perceptual deficits by providing real life scenarios and examples, in addition to providing the working medical definition.
G.E.N.I.U.S. Notebook: Addressing Executive Functional Deficits in...
The G.E.N.I.U.S. Notebook System was designed by Dr. Covington to address executive functional deficits. These deficits tend to be more pronounced/evident in middle school aged children. Deficits can...
Executive Functional Disorders: A Brief Discussion
Executive Functional Disorders/Deficits are those that effect the some of the actions of the frontal cortex. Planning, organizing, arranging, and other factors, that others perform subconsciously, can...
Bilateral Integration: A Discussion
Dr. Covington explains Bilateral Integration/Coordination via definition, simplification of medical terms, and gives examples.