Hand Therapy & Orthopaedics
The hand is our most important tool. Injuries and illnesses severely restrict everyday life. Our certified hand therapists treat acute injuries, pre- and post-operative rehabilitation and chronic conditions with the utmost precision.
Splinting
Custom fabrication and fitting of static and dynamic splints to treat injuries and conditions of the fingers, hands, wrists and forearms.
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Traumatology
Treatment after bone fractures and tendon or nerve injuries to restore full function.
More on this: Broken wrist
Rheumatology
Joint protection advice and fitting of assistive devices for osteoarthritis or rheumatological conditions (inflammatory or non-inflammatory), to relieve pain.
More on this: Finger and thumb osteoarthritis
Strength Building
Targeted exercises to strengthen fine motor skills and improve ergonomics, taking biomechanical principles into account.
More on this: Fine motor skills
Knowledge
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Plainly written specialist articles on the questions we are asked most often in this speciality.
A weak grip: when glasses slip out of your hand
First it is the glass while drying up, then the jam jar. Failing hand strength has very different causes, and the most important fork in the road is whether a muscle has visibly become thinner with it.
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After hand surgery: how hand therapy continues
A hand operation is the beginning of the treatment, not its end. What happens in the first days and weeks after surgery shapes the months that follow. This text describes the medically usual course of the rehabilitation and gives you a sense of what each measure is for.
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Broken wrist: the first weeks after the cast
The cast is off and the hand does not obey. It is swollen and stiff, and the fingers will not close into a fist. After a broken wrist, medically a distal radius fracture, that is the rule and not a sign that something has gone wrong.
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Carpal tunnel syndrome: what occupational therapy does before and after surgery
The hand falls asleep at night, and shaking it out helps. At some point it stops helping. What lies behind it, what helps without surgery, and what has to happen in the weeks afterwards.
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CRPS: the illness nobody gets explained to them
A few weeks after the fracture it should be getting better. Instead the pain grows, the hand is thick and shiny, now hot and red, now cold and bluish, and even a sleeve hurts. There is a name for this: CRPS, formerly Sudeck’s dystrophy.
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Dupuytren’s contracture: what really helps before and after a procedure
At first it is a hard nodule in the palm. After a while the finger no longer straightens and catches on things. In between lies a time in which a great deal is claimed and little is proven.
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