When Your Patient Injures Their Hand, Look at the Whole Arm #shorts

When your patient injures their hand, don’t forget to look at the rest of the arm.

In this session, even relaxing the shoulder, turning the palm down, and allowing the arm to be gently moved gave us information about what the patient could tolerate.

Just one week earlier, the area was too sensitive for anyone to touch. Now, the patient could tolerate touch and movement—and even said some of it felt good.
Those changes matter.

As a hand therapist, you’re constantly assessing how your patient responds and using that information to decide what you can work on and where you may need to slow down.

That’s the kind of clinical reasoning we work through inside the Mentorship Program.

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