Treatment

Services at Kisner McGraw Hand to Shoulder Rehabilitation include:

Individualized evaluation and assessment.

Individualized therapeutic treatment plans that address:

• Range of motion

• Strengthening

• Work conditioning

• Functional activities and exercise

• Desensitization

• Nerve gliding

• Postural restraining

• Neuromotor re-education

• Therapeutic activities

Hands-On Manual Therapy

• Joint mobilization

• Soft tissue mobilization

• Cross fiction massage

• Edema control

• Manual edema mobilization techniques (MEM)

• Scar remodeling techniques

ADvanced wound care

• Incision and wound management

• Dressing changes

• Debridement

• Burn care

Customized splinting

To provide protection of injured structures (bones, tendons, nerves, ligaments), correction of deformity, immobilization of joints, or as a tool for exercise.

Fabrication of:

• static splints

• static progressive splints

• custom dynamic splints

Fitting of prefabricated static, static-progressive, or dynamic splints.

Thermal and electrical modalities

• Hot and cold packs

• Fluidotherapy

• Ultrasound

• Iontophoresis

• NMES, FES, interferential current, premodulated current

• Paraffin

Home program development and modification 

Home programs are necessary to obtain the optimum therapy outcome.

Patient education

It is important that one understand their condition in order to be an educated participant in their care. Therapists make sure that their client understands:

• The nature of their injury or dysfunction

• Precautions associated with their diagnosis

• The importance of commitment with home program precautions

• Prevention techniques and strategies

• Adaptive equipment and techniques to improve ease, comfort and efficiency in daily tasks

• Ergonomic adaptations