NOVA Hand Therapy Center

🔷TBT! Back By Popular Demand!🔷
Patient education is a key component for a full recovery. This visual aid for wrist extension and flexion exercises helps this distal radius fracture patient gain flexibility and strength. 💪✋

Happy 4th of July! 🇺🇸🎆☀️

Practice Makes Perfect🌟
This kinesio taping technique is used significantly ⬇️ wrist pain while weight-bearing. KT tape is used to boost the pisiform.
📍 Note: the pisiform is the only sesamoid carpal bone in the wrist allowing it to move freely. Boosting (or decreasing a subluxation) the pisiform helps to align the wrist and ⬇️ pain. 😊👍🏻

Happy Monday! Make it a good week! 🌟😊

Congratulations Michael! You are the winner of our Hand Therapy Week raffle! Thanks for entering and enjoy your prize!🎉🎁👏

Hand Therapy Week may be ending but our 💙 for our therapists never does! Thank You! 🙌🌟🌸

🔷CHALLENGE🔷
Describe the KT taping technique shown here for tennis elbow/lateral epicondylitis. 🤔🎾🗣

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6️⃣ Reasons To See A Hand Therapist🖐
1️⃣ Injury Assessment By A Trained Professional
2️⃣ Conservative Approach
3️⃣ Pre/Post Surgical Treatment
4️⃣ Economical
5️⃣ Flexible Appointments
6️⃣ Functional Outcome Improvement

Happy Hand Therapy Week!🖐
Join us as we celebrate with challenges, case studies and appreciation for these AMAZING therapists!🎉👏🌟

We Honor, Remember and Thank You🇺🇸❤️🤍💙

Static progressive flexion orthosis to ⬇️ stiffness at 5th PIPJ fabricated by Emily, our AMAZING OT!👏🌟✋

It’s Our🍀7th Birthday!🎂
So thankful for our AMAZING team and even more grateful for the trust and confidence of our INCREDIBLE patients who inspire and motivate us every day!🎉🙌🎈💝

😩 A consecutive back and forward walkover tumble pass did not go as planned resulting in a right wrist fracture Friday night! Fabricated a splint over the weekend to support the fracture until the cast was put in place today.👍🏻🤸‍♂️😊

We 💙 Making Splints!
Form based ulnar gutter to immobilize a healing 5th metacarpal head fracture.💡🖐

Monday Mirror Box Therapy!
Nerve laceration patient has injured hand in the box and is watching the reflection of healthy hand as both attempt to perform the same movements. Method is used to fool the brain into allowing the injured hand to move similarly as the healthy hand.
Although oftentimes used in therapy to reprogram the brain to label a pain signal as nonpainful, in this instance we are using the mirror box to encourage movement due to a lack of sensation.🪞🖐😊

Good Luck Stefanie and Sierra! We miss you both so much!🥲 Best of 🍀 in OT school! You will be incredible!🌟👏 Special thanks to our awesome patients Cathi for the ✋ cupcakes and Cynthia for the knitted hot pack💕

As OT month comes to a close, we wanted thank our AMAZING team!🙌 We are so fortunate to have a dedicated team committed to helping each patient achieve their personal goals with compassion and understanding! 👏🌟💙

✅ out this Dynamic MP Extension Orthosis for a patient who underwent MP arthroplasty of digits 2-5 ✋ Custom made by our amazing therapist Emily!👏💡🌟

Thank You 🙌 to our OT team that make the everyday activities of our patients possible and easier! 👏💡💕

Great time last night celebrating our team at Topgolf!🏌️‍♀️ Gorgeous weather and yummy snacks and drinks made for a fantastic evening!🎉💕🍷

Welcome Mona! We are excited to announce that Mona Elsayed has joined our clinic!🎉👏
Mona is a registered/licensed OT who graduated from Howard University in 2019. She developed her interest in hand therapy while completing her capstone research on upper extremity recovery. She also helped advocate for patient’s rights to outpatient care and coverage.

As a therapist, Mona makes each patient’s goals her top priority and appreciates the structure and distinct treatment approaches that hand therapy provides in helping patients regain function.

Mona plans on pursuing her CHT in the future and looks forward to treating our patients in her journey! 😊👋🎉

April is OT Month! ❤️ Thank you to our AMAZING team for your dedication and commitment in helping our patients live their best lives! 👏🥰🌟🙌

We Have The🌟BEST🌟Patients ! Thank you Vasu for making this 🧡 mini peg board to help build strength and fine motor skills! 🙌👌🧡

Happy Spring!🌷☀️🦋

🚨Voting Ends Friday!🚨
Please help us WIN🏆 “Best Physical/Occupational Therapy” by clicking on the link: 👇👇👇
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Thank you so much for your support!🙌💕🥰 /ot

Welcome Jolene!👋 We are excited to announce that Jolene A.M. Schneider, MOTR/L, CHT has joined our staff!

Jolene graduated in 1999 from Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with her Masters of Occupational Therapy. She was certified in Functional Ergonomics and ASTYM; she became a Certified Hand Therapist in 2014.

Throughout her career, she has had the opportunity to work on both the east and west coasts in clinics and alongside hand surgeons in private practices. Jolene has always had an appreciation and respect for the intricate machinery that is our bodies, in particular the hands. She has a passion for helping others regain their ability to perform activities that they once enjoyed, and strives to create a relaxed, lighthearted therapeutic environment. 🖐😊🌟

It’s Electric!⚡️Electrical muscle stimulation of the triceps to ⬆️ elbow extension & tricep strength. The dumbbell assists w/ extension and patient is standing at the wall to provide proprioceptive input into the elbow to maximize results.💪💡😊

RELIEF!👍🏻 KT Taping ulnar nerve compression due to cubital tunnel syndrome.😊✅