Hand training

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Training of the hand's strength and mobility after injury or surgery.

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About the treatment

Benefits

  • Strength, mobility and fine motor skills
  • Exercises adapted to the injury
  • A training programme for home

Expected results

The goal is better strength, mobility and fine motor skills in the hand. Progress depends on the injury and on the training at home.

Overview & Procedure

What the treatment is and how it's performed

What it is

Hand training is training of the hand's strength, mobility and fine motor skills after injury or surgery. The practitioner puts together exercises that suit the injury and what you want to manage, for example writing, doing up buttons or opening a jar. The exercises are increased gradually.

  • Usually several sessions over a few weeks, with exercises at home.

  1. The practitioner goes through the injury and what you want to manage again.
  2. Mobility, strength and fine motor skills are tested.
  3. You train together on exercises and activities.
  4. You get a training programme to use at home.

Each session takes about an hour.

Experience & Recovery

Pain level, downtime and healing

The exercises can cause discomfort, but should not cause strong pain. The practitioner adapts the load.

  • Common: tenderness and tired muscles after training.
  • Uncommon: more swelling or pain for a short time.

  • Do the exercises the way you have learned them.

No downtime.

Expectations & Safety

Who it's for and safety information

  • After surgery, the training follows the surgeon's plan. Bring information from the hospital if you have it.
  • The exercises at home are a large part of the treatment.

  • After a fracture, tendon injury or surgery in the hand.
  • Stiff fingers and reduced grip strength.
  • Reduced fine motor skills.

  • A fresh injury that a doctor has not examined.
  • An acute infection in the hand.

Progress depends on the injury and on the exercises you do at home.

  • Infection or wounds that have not healed in the area.
  • A fracture or tendon that your doctor or surgeon has not cleared for training.

Contact your doctor or surgeon if you get increasing pain, swelling, redness, warmth, a fever, numbness, or pale or blue fingers.