What are common conditions that are treated with hand therapy?
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Dec 7, 2018
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Krista Storms, OT, talks about the conditions hand therapists treat.
What are common conditions that are treated with hand therapy?
Hand therapists will treat arthritis, fractures, we see a lot of wrist fractures in the winter time when people fall on the ice. We will treat injuries in the workplace where if someone has gotten their hand caught in a machine. We treat sports injuries, a patient is playing football, grabs somebody's jersey and it rips the tendon in their hand. There's just a multitude of things that we treat. We also treat overuse injuries, such as carpal tunnel and cubital tunnel.