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What is Healthy Hands Week?

Healthy Hands Week is an integrated national program sponsored by ASHT. For one week ASHT members sponsor and organize events in their communities, promoting the benefits of the profession and the services they provide.

Healthy Hands Week brings the benefits of the hand therapy profession to new audiences – demonstrating the advantages of preventative, and treatment procedures, for patients who have been affected by an accident or trauma.

Here you will find information:

  • tips for holding an open house
  • writing news releases that will grab editors' attention
  • embarking on a public relations effort with local audiences and media
  • tying the awareness week into upcoming local events
  • becoming a spokesperson/local expert in hand therapy
  • and so much more.
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Cold Hands are the Worst!

These fingerless 12 hour heat-wraps  are an easy way to keep healthy blood flow to joints, flexibility, while remaining functional. We are recommending these in our clinic to those who are having trouble keeping their hands warm.
Positive- long wearing, fits under gloves, come with a thin sheath for wear.Negative-one shot deal

GAME, SET, MATCH TO PREVENTING TENNIS ELBOW
Hand Therapists Serve Up Advice to Avoid Injury

CHICAGO, IL – (date) – The American Society of Hand Therapists (ASHT) is offering specialized tips to help tennis players avoid injury as they prepare for the summer season. From beginners to professionals, tennis elbow, the most common injury in the sport, is seen in approximately one-third of the tennis population.  

“Individuals suffering from tennis elbow may report that they have pain at the outer side of the elbow performing activities using the hand or wrist. As a result, daily activities such as typing, ironing, vacuuming, writing or even lifting a coffee cup may become too painful to perform,” said Chris Blake, Past President of the American Society of Hand Therapists. “For tennis players, some of the causes of tennis elbow can be playing too long or too frequently, poor stroke mechanics with the back hand swing, improper equipment relating to grip size, string tension, racket weight, frame rigidity or the length of the racket.”