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This is your ultimate resource for ideas on treating a variety of hand therapy patient needs. These posts will help when you want some new ideas or are looking for suggestions for your case load. Modalities, manual therapy, functional tasks and home programming are all covered in this discussion of treatment planning.

Scar Wars: Scar Management Techniques

May 27, 2019

We will briefly discuss Scar Management Options and Techniques

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Hand Therapy: How to Treat the Client with a New Distal Radius Fracture

May 5, 2019

A short blog post on the basics of treating a Distal Radius Fracture.

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What? I just received an order for suture removal…

April 21, 2019

How many of us have practiced suture removal in occupational or physical therapy school??  NOT I!! Often, hand surgeons will ask the therapist to remove sutures and sometimes the order will even say “remove sutures…

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7 Tips to Help your Patients Manage Hand Osteoarthritis

January 8, 2018

Our hands are one of the most intricate structures in the human body. They are composed of a network of tendons, ligament and nerves that make it possible to perform daily tasks such as unlocking…

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