Hand & Upper Extremity Clinic
The Hand Therapy Clinic provides comprehensive and coordinated rehabilitation programs for patients with any type of hand or upper extremity injury. Both occupational and physical therapists help patients maximize their ability to carry out their daily activities. Patients play an integral part in setting goals.
Physicians and surgeons refer patients to the Hand Therapy Clinic for a broad range of evaluations and therapeutic treatment programs:
- Self-care, work, and leisure assessments
- BTE-Quest work simulation
- Return-to-work activities
- Adaptive equipment needs
- Range of motion and joint mobilization
- Wound and scar management
- Muscle re-education
- Upper extremity strengthening
- Splinting
- Arthritis education
- Work simplification
- Sensory re-education
- Treatment—fluid therapy, whirlpool, paraffin baths, electrical stimulation, hot and cold packs, and ultrasound.
- Post Breast Cancer Rehabilitation & Lymphedema Management—physical and occupational therapists specially trained in lymphedema management can help you return to your preoperative strength and range of motion. What is lymphedema?
