Tina Cockhill: Hand Therapist

24/12/2022

Wishing all a merry Christmas xx

25/12/2021

Merry Christmas & thank you for your support over the past year. Looking forward to 2022 an hopefully a more covid free year…
Merry Christmas 🤶🎄

31/12/2020

After a challenging 2020. I wish you all a prosperous, happy and most certainly a healthy and safe New Year.

05/05/2020

Today is Hand Hygiene Day, organised by the World Health Organisation.
Celebrated every year on 5 May

This year, the campaign theme “SAVE LIVES: Clean your hands”, is aligned with the Year of the Nurse and the Midwife, and aims to recognise nurses and midwives as front-line heroes who deserve acknowledgement and appreciation, and highlight their critical roles in infection prevention.

The main goal of the Global Hand Hygiene Day campaign : to recognise that handwashing is one of the most effective actions you can take to reduce the spread of pathogens and prevent infections, including the COVID-19 virus.

As part of the 2020 campaign, WHO and partners aim to:

Make hand hygiene a global priority

The current COVID-19 situation has seen many people’s hand hygiene routines change for the better, so please recognise today and make this new routine stick.

06/04/2020

Week 3 of your lockdown. You are following the rules: staying safe: staying home
The garden is starting to look beautiful but your hands and general body are hurting more despite the good weather!
So what can you do to help yourself?

29/03/2020

To ensure clients are kept safe; I am moving on line to offer both verbal and video consultations in this current climate. I will be happy to discuss any new or ongoing concerns. Those that require splinting or immediate post operative and have been referred; I will triage your referral in order to provide you the most appropriate appointment according to our government guidelines. I appreciate this is a difficult time for all and so I will endeavour to help to the best of my restrictive abilities. Stay safe & stay indoors

24/12/2018

Wishing you all a happy & healthy 2019

28/04/2018

Spring is in the air (we hope!) and the bank holiday is on the way…..

Getting the garden ready can prove to be painful for some and yet it should be enjoyable. So what can we do to prevent problems and further injuring our hands? Firstly don't suddenly go out into the garden and expect to do 6-8 hours gardening without straining yourself if you haven't thought of some of the following:

Pace your time; no more than 20-30 mins on one particular activity such as pruning, digging or raking..

Mix it up a little so that you use different muscles for the various tasks, ensuring you don't over load them..

Use both hands when moving pots, or take several trips when carrying loads rather than trying to make it in one trip and overloading your body.

Having the right size and weight of tools is important. The thumb and forefinger should meet when they wrap around the handle, with the wrist being in a neutral position. Our grip / pinch should be light so as to avoid sustained tight holds.

Try to keep your wrists straight and in line with the forearms when pushing, pulling or twisting actions are required. Avoid bending wrists as this will decrease your overall strength.

Make sure your tools are sharpened/ oiled: blunt blades will increase the load you need to apply. If they have wooden or metal handles, try adding some electrical tape or pipe lagging to them; as this is an easy way to increase the diameter and provide padding. (A simple measure to work out your size is: make a circle with your thumb and first finger.)

Spring- loaded secateurs will prevent straining those thumbs, and remember if the branch is wider than your finger, get the loppers out!

Gloves.. protect from injury but also provide padding and support to the joints. However, too much padding can reduce the strength by as much as 30%

Remember to stand upright and gently stretch after. If by any chance you have made yourself sore: ice pack and a gentle massage to the thumb/ forearm muscles will usually settle most simple strains

Most important of all- if something starts to become painful STOP. There is always tomorrow.

22/12/2017

19/11/2017

A big thank you to Mike Walsh in helping me create a website. After all these years, it was about time..
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Many thanks

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