Starting therapy shouldn’t be a scary thing. Therapy is meant to decrease a patient’s symptoms and pain. It increases strength, improves mobility and functional tolerances. Therapy will allow you to return to what you want to do in your life. Physical Therapy (PT) is when health problems or impairments make it hard to move and function due to injury, surgeries, or pain. Physical therapist are trained to treat any body part, but there are also specialist (pediatric, neurological, TMJ, etc). This article will focus on the outpatient orthopedic setting. Occupational therapy (OT), in an outpatient setting, focuses on the upper extremity (specifically wrist, hand, and elbow). ProActive’s OTs are all certified hand therapist (CHT). A CHT is an OT or PT by profession with at least five years of experience, plus 4,000 hours of hand therapy practice (upper extremity rehabilitation), and passes a certification examination that demonstrates knowledge of all areas of hand therapy. The therapist are here to help you return to your ideal lifestyle.

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Industrial therapy is a type of rehabilitation aimed at helping injured workers return to work safely and effectively, avoid re-injuries, and to help with prevention and reduction of work-related injuries. We must remember that industrial does not automatically mean that it is labor intensive. It includes jobs that are repetitive or that may involve awkward positions or motions. This type of therapy may include some if not all of the following types of treatments/programs/tests: physical and/or occupation therapy (worker compensation focused), Functional Capacity Evaluations (FCE), Work Conditioning, Work Hardening, or Ergonomics.

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