Hand OA: benefit of occupational therapy
Another article on hand arthritis found that short-term use of Occupational Therapy in those with carpal metacarpal osteoarthritis (CMC OA) provided major symptomatic benefit (see hand OA occup therapy helps ArthCareRes2022 in dropbox or DOI 10.1002/acr.2454) Details: -- Norwegian study of 180 patients who had CMC OA of the first carpal metacarpal joint and had been referred for surgical consultation at 3 rheumatology departments were randomized to multimodal Occupational Therapy versus OA information while they were waiting for their surgical appointment -- multimodal Occupational Therapy included patient education, exercises (8 exercises for maintaining and increasing joint mobility, grip strength, and stability of the wrist and finger joints, with instructions to exercise at home 3 times/ week), orthoses (both a daytime and nighttime orthosis, commonly a Push Race for the daytime orthosis to increase CMC joint stabi...