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This article talks about the four most common upper extremity injuries. They are hand or wrist fractures, hand or wrist sprains, chronic pain, reoccurring acute injuries. I have not had any upper extremity injuries that I can recall, but I'm sure I will some time in my life time. I have had friends to have carpel tunnel and had surgery for it and they still have issues with it, even after the surgery. I seen several severely injured hands in my first semester of clinicals at an outpatient rehab. Not a pretty sight. Hand injuries and other upper extremity injuries happen to all ages and can be the most inconvenient injuries.

Head injury refers to trauma to the head. This may or may not include injury to the brain. This is really good to go to that gives you a visual on Closed Head injuries (CHI). This allowed a much better understanding of what actually happens.

This is a little compilation of many of the wrist and hand injuries that can occur. It includes just a brief explanation of what it is and what it can affect.

For people young and old, knowledge is power. This article focuses on the 4 most common hand injuries.

general information on nerve injuries

A list of hand and UE injuries

Decided to share this because, as they say, "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure."

This web site explains hand therapy, common injuries, and treatment for those injuries. It gives examples of the different types of treatments and the injuries they can be used for. Excellent resource to refer back too.

This article offers great tips for protecting our upper extremities! This advice helps the athlete or the average person. This is an article I'll hang on too.

This website offers a list of tips to avoid injuries to the fingers, wrist and hand. These are some good tips for all of us to keep in mind while working with clients and even for ourselves.

Although we follow Ergonomics, work injuries can be caused by stress. This article is written by an OT that is also a Certified Hand Therapist. Some of Her clients tell her that their injuries started due to stress. She pin point 4 Interventions for 4 phases of stress. She also list 6 ways employers can make the work place be less stressful. I believe this article is a great resource for realizing stress may cause lots of difficulties but also encourages when we fell stressed, we need to think about these 4 intervention.

I found this on the AOTA's website and it is a tendon tip sheet. It tells exactly what a tendon injury is and also what OT implements with this form or injury. It is a short, but informative page on this topic. I thought it would be beneficial to print out as a source to keep to look back on.

This website contains a lot of information about rotator cuff injuries. This includes a general overview of rotator cuff injury along with causes, symptoms, medical treatment, self-care, prevention and prognosis.

The objectives of rehabilitation after an individual has sustained an acute spinal cord injury (SCI) include maximizing the patient's medical, functional, and psychosocial outcomes. Functional outcomes are strongly associated with the neurological level of the individual's SCI.

This very much pertains to our sex lesson and how important it is that people with spinal cord injuries still realize they can still participate. Of course we will still remain in our scope of practice with the Plissit model, but this definitely gives some good ideas and maybe a good handout to give someone with these types of questions!

Discussion on sexual function for people with a spinal cord injury. The amount of feeling and function can vary drastically depending on the level and severity of the injury to the spinal cord

I enjoyed what this article spoke about. It seems to me to have a little of all the things we have spoken about in relation to sexual activity and the basic steps on how we can help our clients. Even though the article was set up for spinal cord injuries I feel the steps could be helpful for a lot more.

When I have an injury I feel like sometimes I have some really basic question about it and sometimes its really hard to find the answers or takes forever because they arent all in one place. I really liked this article because it has several most common questions asked for a rotator cuff tear! Also it is a good article to read if you would just like to broaden your knowledge of rotator cuff injuries. It covers anything from the cause to the healing process.

This articles looks at reasons why healthcare occupations have the highest rates of musculoskeletal injuries in our nation and what the healthcare industry is doing to prevent injuries in the workplace.

I feel this is a great resource for individuals and their loved ones upon initial injury or diagnosis of an illness. It has short explanations about many different common conditions from spinal cord injury and questions one might have to psychological disorders. I feel it could be a great way for people to find out more if they wish to do it in a more private setting. It talks about sports, travel, school, work etc. It is based in Europe. Their ambassador's have disabilities so they have more insight than others might!