Hand Rehabilitation Foundation is proud to offer a 3-day educational tutorial at the Philadelphia Hand to Shoulder Center. Tutorial participants will shadow the surgeons and therapists in the office, in surgery and in therapy. Supplementing the 3-day observation are structured learning opportunities including hands-on labs, didactic sessions and splint fabrication. Participants can select from a menu of topics based on their needs and interests. Participants will earn 24 contact hours (8 hours per day).
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Click to register for the January 30-February 1, 2023 Tutorial
Click to register for the April 17-19, 2023 Tutorial
Click to register for the May 1-3, 2023 Tutorial
Click to register for the June 5-7, 2023 Tutorial
Menu of Topics
DIDACTIC SESSIONS
- Rehabilitation following flexor/extensor tendon repairs
- Wrist Rehabilitation – selected topics
- Rehabilitation for finger fractures
- Rehabilitation for elbow fractures
- Wound healing and management
- Rehabilitation and splinting for small joint arthroplasty
SPLINT LABS
- Static wrist/thumb splints
- Sugar tong/munster splints
- Contracture correction splints: wrist
- Contracture correction splints: fingers
- Contracture correction splints: forearm
- Peripheral nerve injury splints: radial nerve palsy
- Peripheral nerve injury splints: ulnar nerve palsy
- Peripheral nerve injury splints: median nerve palsy
- Specialized wrist splints (mid-carpal stabilization splints; scaphoid mobilization splints)
- Other (please specify and we will accommodate if possible)
HANDS ON LABS
- Clinical exam of the wrist
- Clinical exam of the elbow
- Clinical exam of the hand
- Clinical exam of the shoulder
- Manual edema mobilization
- Neural tension testing and nerve gliding
Schedule
(Subject to change based on Physician availability)
| Day | Date | Provider | Location |
| Monday | 1/30/23 | A. Osterman | KOP Office |
| Tuesday | 1/31/23 | A. Osterman | KOP Sx Cntr |
| Wednesday | 2/1/23 | Therapy | KOP Therapy |
| Monday | 4/17/23 | A. Osterman | KOP Office |
| Tuesday | 4/18/23 | A. Osterman | KOP Sx Cntr |
| Wednesday | 4/19/23 | Therapy | KOP Therapy |
| Monday | 5/1/23 | A. Osterman | KOP Office |
| Tuesday | 5/2/23 | A. Osterman | KOP Sx Cntr |
| Wednesday | 5/3/23 | Therapy | KOP Therapy |
| Monday | 6/5/23 | A. Osterman | KOP Office |
| Tuesday | 6/6/23 | A. Osterman | KOP Sx Cntr |
| Wednesday | 6/7/23 | Therapy | KOP Therapy |