Christine M. Wietlisbach is a Hand Therapist, Eisenhower Health, Palm Springs and Rancho Mirage, CA; Adjunct Assistant Professor, Occupational Therapy Program, West Coast University, Los Angeles, CA; Lecturer and Clinical Faculty, Occupational Therapy Program, Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, CA; Adjunct Assistant Professor, Occupational Therapy Program, Rocky Mountain University of Health Professions, Provo, UT.
Part One: Fundamentals 1. Fundamentals: Hand Therapy Concepts and Treatment
Techniques 2. Evidence-Based Practice: The Basic Tools 3. Functional
Anatomy 4. Evaluation of the Hand and Upper Extremity 5. Assessment of
Functional Outcomes 6. Hand Coordination 7. Orthoses: Essential Concepts 8.
Fundamentals of Edema Management 9. Physical Agent Modalities in the Hand
Clinic 10. Tissue-Specific Exercises for the Upper Extremity 11. Clinical
Reasoning and Problem-Solving in Upper Extremity Rehabilitation 12.
Fundamentals of Client-Therapist Rapport 13. Facilitating Adherence to the
Plan of Care 14. Narratives in Hand Therapy 15. Utilization of Therapy
Assistants in Hand Therapy 16. Some Thoughts on Professionalism
Part Two: Clinical Reasoning and Treatment Guidelines for Common Diagnoses
of the Upper Extremity 17. Wounds 18. Common Shoulder Diagnoses 19. Elbow
Diagnoses 20. Peripheral Nerve Problems 21. Wrist Fractures 22. Wrist
Instabilities 23. Hand Fractures 24. Elbow, Wrist, and Hand Tendinopathies
25. Finger Sprains and Deformities 26. Flexor Tendon Injury 27. Extensor
Tendon Injury 28. Tendon and Nerve Transfers 29. Arthritis 30. Burns 31.
Infections 32. Dupuytren Contracture 33. Ganglions and Tumors of the Hand
and Wrist 34. Traumatic Hand Injury Involving Multiple Structures 35. The
Stiff Hand 36. The Neurologic Hand 37. Complex Regional Pain Syndrome and
Pain 38. Chemotherapy-Induced Peripheral Neuropathy 39. Functional Somatic
Syndromes or Challenging Behavior Index
