This splinting workshop is designed for intermediate to advanced therapists working with an upper extremity patient caseload.
The workshop will provide clinicians with the knowledge and skills to fabricate custom upper extremity orthotics. The course offers a hands-on learning opportunity for occupational and hand therapists who want to start fabricating orthotics or wish to elevate their skills.
Participants will learn the principles and processes for creating different types of custom upper extremity orthotics, including how and when to use various splinting materials and considerations for human biomechanics.
Presenter: Nancy Chee, OTD, OTR/L, CHT
Nancy is currently a senior hand therapist at California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco and specializes in the areas of UE rehabilitation with clients after traumatic and chronic hand injuries. Nancy has given numerous presentations locally, nationally and internationally addressing area of a therapist’s management of mutilating hand injuries, burns, flap and grafts, tendon injuries and orthotic fabrication. She is also a clinical instructor and an adjunct professor at Samuel Merritt University in Oakland, CA, instructing in areas of kinesiology, clinical modalities and interventions including orthotic fabrication for Masters and Doctoral level occupational therapy students.
