This year for Hand Therapy Week 2018 (June 4-10th), we promoted The American Society of Hand Therapist’s (ASHT’s) guidelines for healthy handheld device usage to prevent upper extremity injury. As handheld and other computerized devices such as cellphones, laptops, tablets, and digital media players take over the world, we find our society in a “T-Rex arm” type position more often…Continue Reading
Gardening Safety in Honor of Hand Therapy Week
Tidewater Physical Therapy is home to three Certified Hand Therapists; an accomplishment we are very proud of. Hand therapy involves evaluating and treating injuries and conditions within the shoulder, arm, elbow, forearm, wrist, and hand. Hand therapists are licensed or registered occupational therapists (OT) or physical therapists (PT) who specialize in treating individuals with conditions affecting these areas. Hand therapists…Continue Reading
Good Things Delmarva, National Hand Therapy Week 2016
Check out Craig Joachimowski, PT, OCS, CHT, on Good Things Delmarva for Hand Therapy Week 2016! Craig is our senior physical therapist and clinical director at our Seaford clinic and is also one of three certified hand therapists that are apart of the Tidewater Physical Therapy family!…Continue Reading
Hand Therapy Week 2016: June 6-12, 2016
Hand Therapy Week is an integrated national program established by the American Society of Hand Therapy. This week is aimed towards raising awareness of the hand therapy specialty among various audiences, including primary care providers, surgeons, referral sources, and the public. This June marks the second year that Tidewater Physical Therapy has celebrated National Hand Therapy Week in order to help bring awareness to the specialty of hand therapy……Continue Reading
Good Things Delmarva, Hand Therapy 2015
Check us out on Good Things Delmarva for Hand Therapy Week 2015!…Continue Reading
Good Morning Delmarva, Hand Therapy Week 2015
Good Morning Delmarva, Hand Therapy Week 2015……Continue Reading
Hand Therapy Week 2015: June 1 – 7, 2015
Hand Therapy Week is an integrated national program established by the American Society of Hand Therapy. Its aim is to raise awareness of the hand therapy specialty among various audiences, including primary care providers, surgeons, referral sources and the public. …Continue Reading
Local Physical Therapist becomes Certified Hand Therapist (CHT)
OCEAN PINES, Md. – William “Billy” Hamilton, Jr., clinical director of Tidewater Physical Therapy’s Ocean Pines clinic recently became a Certified Hand Therapist (CHT) and is only one of 144 in Maryland with this special certification….Continue Reading