Hands on Hand Therapy - NSW

03/03/2025

23/02/2025

We are thrilled to announce that Hands on Hand Therapy is expanding to better serve
our community with a brand-new location at 44 Hopetoun Rd, Woonona (located in
Bai Med - Woonona Medical Practice complex).

Our new location will offer the same exceptional hand therapy services you've come to
trust, along with our latest addition: Handwriting Assessments!

Why Visit Us in Woonona?
- Convenient location.
- Expertise: Our therapists are experienced and trained specifically in hand therapy, with
the knowledge and skills necessary to assess and treat a wide range of hands.
- Injuries/conditions: From simple to complex trauma, fractures (including casting and
splinting ), wound care and post-operative rehabilitation to management of chronic
conditions such as arthritis and repetitive strain injuries, our services encompass the full
spectrum of hand therapy care.

30/01/2025

We would like everyone to meet the Newest member of the Hands on Hand Therapy team Heather!

Heather graduated from University with a Bachelor of Occupational Therapy. Since then, she has worked within the private sector focusing on the NDIS, My Aged Care and DVA as well the public sector with focus on neurology, orthopaedics and acute hand therapy. In her spare time, Heather enjoys spending time with her family including her dog Winnie & playing netball.

24/01/2025

Welcome to 2025! The Hands on Hand Therapy team is looking forward to sharing exciting announcements in the upcoming months- stay tuned!.

Our clinics have now resumed full staffing and operating hours after the holidays. If you have recently sustained a hand or upper limb injury, undergone hand surgery, or are experiencing persistent hand pain, our team of experienced therapists is available to provide assistance.

To schedule an appointment at one of our clinics in Kiama, Figtree, Nowra, or Milton/Ulladulla, please contact our reception at 02 4233 2641.

22/12/2024

The Hands on Hand Therapy team would like to wish all of our patients as well as the wonderful Illawarra and South Coast community a Happy Christmas and a safe, healthy and prosperous 2025.

Our clinics remain open during the festive season as follows:
Kiama: 23rd, 24th, 31st, 2nd
Figtree: 23rd, 27th, 30th, 3rd
Nowra: 24th, 31st
Milton: 23rd

If you have any urgent injuries or have had hand surgery please call our reception on 42332641. If unattended your call will be returned on the same day (except for public holidays)
Merry Christmas!

13/12/2024

In November this year our practice Principal Cate Menzies was offered the opportunity to work with a team of our Australian Hand Surgeons to provide outreach hand therapy alongside Rosemary Prosser at Hue Hospital in Vietnam. This involved both teaching medical and therapy staff as well as providing therapy. An amazing, challenging and rewarding experience!

12/12/2024

The wonderful Hands on Hand Therapy staff enjoyed Christmas lunch at Mountain Ridge winery last week . We feel very lucky to work with such an amazing team of dedicated therapists and admin staff. We missed Pam and Abby but welcomed Heather who starts with us in January 2025 as part of our hand therapy team!

24/10/2024

This week the 21st through to the 27th of October we celebrated OT Week. The theme was 80 years of Connection, more specifically 80 years since the formation of the first Occupational Therapist Club in Australia!

16/10/2024

In This post we will outline one way of taping a Mallet Finger. The Key of taping a mallet finger is to keep the tip of the finger supported at all times, now this may be with help from someone else, a platform or with the use of a table.

1. Apply the base layer: Whilst supporting the tip of the finger, place the tape on the underside of the finger, lift the tip up and bring the tape over the nail and continue back down.

2. Apply the splint: Line the splint up with with tip of the finger, yours may have a layer of waterproof material underneath.

3. Secure tape around the base: Supporting the tip, apply tape to the base of the splint, this will be half on the splint and half on the skin.

4. Apply the first layer to the splint: Supporting the tip of the finger, place the tape on the underside of the finger, lift the tip up into the splint and bring the tape over and to the back of the splint.

5. Secure the splint: Apply one or two more layers of tape around the splint to secure.

09/10/2024

One of the most common Injuries we see in our clinics is a Mallet Finger. A Mallet finger is when the tendon that lifts the tips of the finger is interrupted. This can occur from sporting injuries or direct force when completing Activities of Daily living such as making beds or putting away groceries.

In a Mallet finger the tip will present in a drooped fashion and no matter how hard we try we are unable to lift it. The treatment for a mallet finger is full time splinting for a period of time.

We understand that full time splinting can be cumbersome, and as such have a different range of splints to find a solution. Below are some of the splints that we can make to treat this injury.