ASHT Blog
Posted by Jane Fedorczyk, PT, PhD, CHT on February 25, 2020
Evelyn J. Mackin, matriarch of hand therapy, passed away on February 19, 2020. To echo her words, “she had a good run.” She would want all of us to celebrate her life and contributions to the hand therapy profession instead of weeping her loss. She was 97 years old and remained active in the hand…
Posted by Melanie Hubbuck, MS on February 21, 2020
Call to all hand therapy researchers! ASHT is seeking hand therapy researchers to share their work related to rehabilitation of the upper extremity at this year’s annual meeting in San Antonio, TX from October 1-4, 2020. This meeting will be co-located with the American Society for Surgery of the…
Posted by Kimberly Masker, OTD, OTR/L, CHT on February 10, 2020
“The best way to predict your future is to create it” – Abraham Lincoln
More occupational and physical therapy students than ever before are taking their passion for hand therapy and making thoughtful and directed goals for their future even before graduation. I have more students than ever before…
Posted by Cindy Clare Ivy, M.ED, OTD, CHT on February 03, 2020
Have you ever read an abstract to an article and thought you have found a great therapeutic solution to a problem only to find out later that the research was flawed, or inconclusive or stating something entirely different than what it appeared in the abstract? A critically appraised topic (CAT) is…
Posted by Barbra J. Almond, OTR, CHT on January 27, 2020
As Americans, many of us are privileged enough to get early intervention after a nerve laceration. There are some countries, however, that are not as fortunate as the United States. Machete injuries may not be very common in the US, but in Nigeria, Haiti and Nicaragua, there is a high incidence…