Hand Therapy services are now being offered at Memorial Hermann Southeast Hospital in the Occupational Therapy Department. Utilizing specialized skills in assessment and treatment, a certified orthopedic manual therapist is now on staff to provide hand therapy services in rehabilitating patients with conditions affecting the hands and upper extremities. A certified hand therapist (CHT)/certified orthopedic manual therapist (COMT) at Southeast will work with the physician and the patient to provide a continuum of care; often starting within days of the injury or surgery right through to the patient's return to work and/or a productive lifestyle.
These medical services are offered to patients who may have been affected by an accident or trauma leaving them with wounds, scars, burns, injured tendons or nerves, fractures, or even amputation of the finger, hand, or arm. Also patients may receive rehabilitative services from a hand therapist to maintain function in the upper quadrants due to the disabling affects of cumulative trauma disorders - such as tennis elbow or carpal tunnel syndrome. Many patients seeking the care of a hand therapist also suffer from such chronic problems as arthritis or a neurological condition.
For more information about hand therapy services at Memorial Hermann southeast, please call 281-929-4475.
The Memorial Hermann Southeast Hospital campus is located at 11800 Astoria Boulevard, and includes a 267-bed hospital and two medical plaza buildings for clinical offices and the Memorial Hermann Cancer Center at Southeast. Specialty services at Memorial Hermann Southeast include the recent openings of a state-of-the-art Cancer Center and Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), heart and vascular care, advanced diagnostic imaging, outpatient occupational therapy and rehabilitation and physical therapy. For more information about Memorial Hermann Southeast, visit www.memorialhermann.org.
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