Hand therapy helps a patient regain maximum use of his or her hand after injury, surgery or the onset of disease.
Treatment is provided by a hand therapist. To become a hand therapist, your health care professional must first train as an occupational or physical therapist and then recieve additional training in hand therapy.
Hand therapists teach exercises, apply modalities and create custom splints to help the hand heal and to protect it from additional injury.
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Common Indications for Gauntlet Thumb Spica Splint
Gauntlet Thumb Spica Splint
• Gamekeepers thumb
• Sprain or dislocation
• Injury affecting opposition
• Degenerative rheumatoid arthritis or the CMC joint
• Web spacer
• Tenosynovitis
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