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Date: Wednesday, November 19, 2025
Time: 5:00 PM PT / 6:00 PM MT / 7:00 PM CT / 8:00 PM ET
Deadline to register: Wednesday, November 19 at 5:00 PM ET
Presented by: April O'Connell, OTR/L, CHT, ACSM
Format: 45 minutes presentation, 15 minutes Q&A
Webinar Description:
This course is a continuum of Rehabilitation of the Overhead Athlete – Part 1, and reviews case studies and real time cases from treating NFL, NBA and MLB players. A brief anatomy review is followed by specific examination tips for the athletic population. Orthotic fabrication and rehabilitation pearls are described and discussed at length. This interactive presentation is beneficial for therapists already familiar with treating hand injuries who wish to familiarize themselves with more specific treatment guidelines for the overhead athlete.
Learning Objectives:
Upon completion of this course, participants will:
- Understand specific areas of how the overhead athlete’s occupational performance can be affected by hand dysfunction
- Differentiate between post-operative rehabilitation protocols for common sport hand injuries
- Understand conservative and orthotic treatment algorithms for a variety of trauma diagnoses for the overhead athlete
Attendees earn 1.0 contact hour or 0.10 CEUs
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Registration Fee:
Members $35
Student Members $20
Non-Members $55
Student Non-Members $30
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April O’Connell, OTR/L, CHT, ACSM, is an occupational therapist at Cedars Sinai Hospital in Beverly Hills, CA. She works with a variety of sports teams including the NFL, MLB and NBA and recently spoke at ASHT and AAHT on Rehabilitation of the Overhead Athlete. She is one of the main contributors to the fellowship program for hand and upper extremity rehabilitation as well as the co-director for Cedars Sinai Hand Symposium.
April got her start as the Clinical Specialist in the Hand and Upper Extremity Therapy Department at NYU Langone Health. She has lectured to orthopedic surgeons and therapists nationally and internationally in current concepts of orthopedic rehabilitation of the upper extremity. Some of her most recent lectures include being a guest speaker for Dr. Radio on Sirius Satellite on topics for rehabilitation of the hand and upper extremity as well as injuries to the overhead athlete. In addition, she has presented on Flexor Tendon Repair Advancement at AAOS in 2015 and was later asked to speak at the ASSH national conference in 2016 and ASHT in 2017. She recently presented her latest research at the ASHT National Conference on flexor tendon rehabilitation in 2019.
April is a founding member of the NYU Langone Golf and Pitching Labs and was the head hand therapist for the first successful bilateral hand and face allotransplantation. She earned her Occupational Therapy degree at Boston University, is a Certified Hand Therapist and is certified by the American Council of Sports Medicine (ACSM) as a Clinical Exercise Specialist.