Treatments
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.
How to Strengthen the Intrinsics with Puttycise Tools:
How to strengthen the intrinsic with Puttycise tools
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Which is better: Splinting the MCP or PIP joint when managing Trigger Finger?
Teo, S. H., Ng D. C., Wong, Y.K.(2018). Effectiveness of proximal interphalangeal joint blocking orthosis vs metacarpophalangeal joint blocking orthosis in trigger digit: A randomized clinical trial. Journal of Hand Therapy, 1-7. The Skinny- This…
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Scar Wars: Scar Management Techniques
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
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…
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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