Hand Therapy

  1. Our occupational therapy hand therapy program treats acute and chronic conditions of the elbow, forearm, wrist, and hand. Conditions treated include:
    • PAIN
    • Tennis elbow (lateral epicondylitis)
    • Golfer's elbow (medial epicondylitis)
    • cubital tunnel syndrome
    • carpal tunnel syndrome
    • Tendonitis
    • Osteoarthritis
    • Rheumatoid arthritis
    • stiffness (decreased range of motion) and weakness after fracture healing
    • After surgery care
      • tendon repair
      • ligament repair
      • nerve repair
      • fracture fixation
      • joint replacement
      • amputation

  2. Treatment within the hand therapy program includes:

    3. ***one-to-one personalized care
    • custom splint fabrication
    • edema (swelling) control techniques (compressive wraps, garments, exercises)
    • cryotherapy (use of cold to decrease pain and swelling)
    • heat modalities (moist heat, ultrasound)
    • electrical stimulation (to decrease pain, increase range of motion)
    • manual therapy techniques (joint manipulation/mobilization, range of motion)
    • strengthening techniques
    • strapping (place a joint into a sustained stretch)
    • stump formation after amputation (stumps must heal round and uniform to allow prosthesis application if patient desires)
    • Customized home exercise program to be followed between treatment sessions
Splints can be designed to stretch a joint. This is a person with residual stiffness after finger joint replacements.

Splints can also be fabricated to rest painful, swollen joints. This is a person after a thumb joint replacement with pain and swelling, benefitting from a compression glove to physically push out the excess fluid. The splint is providing stability to decrease pain between exercise sessions.

Light strengthening exercise after thumb joint replacement.