Intervention Approaches

  • Activity/exercise regimes custom designed to increase motion, dexterity and strength with the ultimate goal of improving function
  • Behavior management
  • Compressive therapy
  • Desensitization, sensory re-education or sensory compensatory techniques
  • Electrical modalities
  • Ergonomic modifications
  • Adaptive techniques and suggestions for adaptive/assistive devices equipment
  • Industrial consultation
  • Joint protection and energy conservation training
  • Manual therapy
  • Orthotic fabrication for post-op surgical protection/immobilization, correction of injury or deformity and conservative management of common upper extremity syndromes
  • Pain management, acute or chronic
  • Patient and family education
  • Prosthetic training
  • Scar tissue management
  • Thermal modalities
  • Wellness education
  • Work conditioning/hardening/retraining
  • Wound management