
Hand, Wrist and Arm Conditions
Common Conditions of the Hand, Wrist, Arm and Elbow
As specialized clinicians we offer quality, and expert care for hand and arm conditions. The following list of diagnoses are just a few conditions that we treat on a daily basis. Contact St. Dominic’s Hand Management Center for an evaluation and to begin a healing treatment program today!
St. Dominic’s Hand Management Center offers both soft supportive splints and custom orthotics that will better align the joint and decrease the pain experienced with pinch activities. We can also show you exercises to help stabilize the thumb and make the joints more flexible. Education on how to reduce stresses placed on the hand with daily activities and modalities such as paraffin bath and ultrasound may also provide relief of symptoms.
St. Dominic’s hand therapists offer treatment that can help alleviate these symptoms and potentially prevent surgery. They can apply iontophoresis, pulsed ultrasound, orthotics, show you hand and arm exercises and provide you with expert advice about how to prevent further carpal tunnel symptoms by changing your work habits.
St. Dominic’s certified hand therapists can show you hand exercises that will help you ease your wrist and hand back into action. We can also provide you with expert advice about how to prevent Carpal Tunnel Syndrome by changing your work habits.
Contact a St. Dominic’s hand therapist today for an evaluation and to begin a treatment program.
St. Dominic’s Hand Management hand therapists can help you with orthotics, exercises, and modalities (paraffin, ultrasound, iontophoresis) that can help you to regain pain free movement in your thumb.
The only way to treat Dupuytren’s is surgery or collagenase injections performed by a hand surgeon. To find a hand surgeon in the area, visit the websites for the American Society for Surgery of the Hand or visit the American Association for Surgery of the Hand.
At St. Dominic’s Hand Management Center, therapists can help you after your surgery or injection with orthotics, exercises and scar remodeling techniques to speed your recuperation.
If a flexor tendon is cut all the way through, the finger can no longer bend on its own, and if nerves are also injured, the finger may be numb.
If the tendon is cut completely, you will need surgery to rejoin the two ends. You will then need to follow a specific exercise program recommended by a hand therapist to regain movement in your finger.
They occur when the tissue, which produces a thick fluid to keep the joints and tendons moving, balloons out from the joint or tendon to form a cyst. The cyst then fills with the fluid and appears as a visible lump.
A ganglion cyst can be painful when it first occurs, and constantly using your hand or wrist can enlarge the cyst and make it hurt worse.
St. Dominic’s hand therapists can provide you with orthotics to ease the discomfort. If the pain continues the cyst can be drained or removed by a hand surgeon. Stiffness of the involved joint and scar discomfort may occur post operatively. Our hand therapists can provide heat modalities, desensitization activities and exercises to assist in reducing pain and regaining full motion.
Symptoms include new, severe pain in the original injured area. That pain may spread through the injured limb and then other symptoms may appear, such as stiffening, loss of strength, elevated skin temperature and a swollen, reddish look.
The first way to treat RSD is through a supervised physical or occupational therapy program. St. Dominic’s Hand Management Center therapists have a thorough knowledge of this syndrome and can help you improve movement, reduce pain, and regain function as pain diminishes.
The cause of trigger finger is often unknown but sometimes occurs after repeated use of hand held tools.
St. Dominic’s certified hand therapists can provide nonsurgical treatment for this condition including orthotics to eliminate triggering and modalities (ultrasound and/or iontophoresis). Sometimes, surgery or injections are indicated, and therapy may be indicated post-intervention to assure maximum recovery.