Current Evidence for Rehabilitation of the Repaired Tendon

Speaker: April D. O’Connell, OT/L, CHT

March 6, 2021 via Zoom Call

This course will benefit intermediate to advanced level practitioners (OT’s, COTA’s, PT’s, PTA’s and CHT’s) and will provide you with 7 ceu’s.

Speaker: Ms. April D. O’Connell is a licensed Occupational Therapist and a Certified Hand Therapist who received her Bachelor of Science in Occupational therapy from Boston University in 2001 and has over 15 years of clinical experience and training.

Course Objectives: 

• 1.      Perform a patient-centered evaluation involving review of medical history, patient-rated outcomes and subjective account to systematically lead to diagnostically appropriate plan of care.
• 2.      Describe anatomical and biomechanical principles that form the framework of post-operative extensor tendon evaluation and treatment. 
• 3.      Explain how biomechanical dysfunction of the hand can create functional impairment.
• 4.      Identify important indications and contraindications for therapeutic interventions and protocols for post-operative extensor tendon repair.
• 5.      Identify current research and upcoming trends in tendon repair rehabilitation
• 6.      Ascertain appropriate orthotic device with a basic understanding of how to fabricate them for extensor tendon repairs
• 7.      Identify the rehabilitation protocols associated with each zone and the evidence and science for using each protocol
• 8.      Explain rationale for when to progress the patient through each flexor tendon protocol
• 9.      Design a treatment algorithm to target complex zone 2 tendon repairs
• 10.  Identify complications to repairs in real time and devise effective strategies to maximize   function

Course will be from 8:00am – 4:00pm and will be virtual. Once registered and closer to the course, SCHTA will be sending a link for the Zoom call.