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Our Occupational
Therapist specializes in hand therapy. They will
provide treatment to:
- Increase ROM,
strength and functional use
- Decrease edema
- Decrease
hypersensitivity or provide sensory re-education
- Increase fine motor
skills or dexterity
- Decrease
deformity/poor positioning
- Decrease numbness
- Provide custom
splinting to immobilize/protect/support
Treatments often
seen in a patient's plan of care include:
- PROM/AROM/AAROM
- Stretching &
strengthening
- Patient education
and joint protection
- Splinting
- ADLs
- Sensory re-education
- Adaptive equipment
- Joint mobilization
- Manual traction
- Electrical
stimulation, ultrasound, & iontophoresis
- Whirlpool
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