Mercy Outpatient Rehabilitation and Therapy - Hand Therapy

 

At Mercy, a hand therapist is an occupational therapist who has completed advanced study and has specialized experience in evaluating and treating hands and arms. Hand therapists specilize in rehabilitation for persons having injury, surgery, or illness that affects any part of the arm from the upper arm to the fingertips.

 

A hand therapist works with adults and adolescents who have been in an accident resulting from wounds, scars, burns, injured tendons or nerves, fractures or even amputation of the finger, hand or arm.

 

Also, surgery often requires specialized follow-up after repair or elective improvements to the arm, hand, wrist or fingers to get the greatest benefit from the surgery. A hand therapist should be your first choice for such therapy.

 

Designed to help increase the use of the hand, arm, selected conditions of the shoulder and/or elbow after an injury or trauma, this treatment assists those who have:

Hand therapists teach patients how to adapt to everyday challenges by using a variety of therapeutic activities and techniques such as exercise, computer-based therapy and splinting.