OSOT - Therapy Management of Distal Radius Fracture
Presenter(s)
Mirella Deisher, OTD, MS, OTR/L, CHT
This webinar aims to help clinicians understand factors related to clinical decision-making for rehab management of distal radius fractures. How does the nature of the fracture influence medical and rehab management? What evaluative measures are significant and how do you interpret your findings to inform your plan of care? What strategies are effective to support remediation of impairments and how do we support return to occupations at different phases of rehab? Join us for this informative session to have these questions answered.
By the end of this webinar, you will be able to: Identify normal anatomy and kinematics of the wrist. Describe the pathomechanics related to distal radius fractures. Identify important evaluative procedures. Interpret evaluative findings to inform the plan of care. Appraise how healing timelines influence treatment progression. Identify appropriate interventions at different phases of healing.
Mirella Deisher, OTD, MS, OTR/L, CHT has been an occupational therapist since 1998 that has worked in upper limb and hand therapy since 2000. She has been a certified hand therapist since 2003. In 2009, she obtained her post-professional doctoral degree with an emphasis in hand therapy. Mirella has developed clinical hand therapy fellowships from 2012 to 2018. In 2020, she founded the Virtual Hand to Shoulder Fellowship to increase access to a comprehensive didactic curriculum, mentorship, and professional development in hand therapy with the mission of educating the generalist to the specialist.