Work Hardening and UB Strength
Occupational Therapy Intervention: Work Hardening and UB Strength
Documentation and Activity Rationale
The patient engaged in a work hardening task in which she was tasked with shoulder (adduction and abduction), forearm, wrist, and intrinsic hand strengthening. The task required the patient to manipulate <50lbs for x10 repetitions in order to prepare the patient for return to work s/p hand injury.
Grading Strategies
Grading Up:
- increased repetitions
- increased weight
Grading Down:
- less weight
- begin with the movement pattern
Appropriate Diagnoses / Deficits
- Atrophy s/p hand and/or wrist injury
- muscle weakness
- hypo/hypertonicity
- TBI
- CVA
