Active Hand Rehab. Hand Therapy Services

03/12/2025

Meet Elfbow… and yes, he’s already been so naughty he managed to take a tumble. 🙄
We’ve fitted him with custom thermoplastic splints. Fingers crossed this puts a stop to his mischief.. but honestly, we’re not holding our breath. 😏🎄

Meanwhile, Mr Banks, our very serious golden hand therapist, is giving him THE look… you know, the “I’ve had enough of your nonsense” one. 🐶😐
If that stare doesn’t straighten Elfbow out, nothing will.

02/12/2025

Injury to the TFCC deep foveal fibres is likely to cause instability during end range forearm rotation, when compared to the contralateral side.

➡️ During end range supination, the deep dorsal radiolulnar ligament (RUL) provides stability (is under tension), while the deep palmar RUL is slack.

➡️ Conversely, when positioned in end range pronation, the deep palmar RUL is under tension, while the deep dorsal RUL is slack.

➡️ In neutral or mid-range forearm rotation, both deep dorsal RUL and deep palmar RUL are relatively relaxed.

➡️ The superficial RUL ligaments are also divided into dorsal and palmar components and provide proprioceptive feedback during functional tasks. Injury to the superficial TFCC fibres may cause significant pain or present as dysfunction or clumsiness during activities that were previously completed without issue.

04/07/2025

STATIC PROGRESSION ELBOW FLEXION SPLINT 💪🏼

Marysia looking proud as punch with her first elbow flexion splint. Shout out to Anita and her creative brain for helping!!.. Many hands make light work 😇

This design was based off the template from the Hospital of Special Surgery.

26/06/2025

Meet the superficial muscles of the volar forearm! easily remembered by a mnemonic:
👉🏼 Pass-Fail-Pass-Fail 👈🏼 (from lateral to medial / thumb to pinky side)

* Pronator teres
* Flexor carpi radials
* Palmaris longus
* Flexor carpi ulnaris

💡All but one of these muscles are innervated by the median nerve, one is innervated by the ulnar nerve. Can you guess which one? 🧠

12/06/2025

Happy from the team at Active Hand Rehab including Mr Banks our resident therapy hero who keeps both staff and clients feeling loved!

Whether it’s wagging a tail to greet us, a gentle nudge during tough exercises with clients or those soulful eyes that remind clients to keep going, Mr Banks knows just how to make the hard work of healing feel a little better.

08/03/2025

“There is no limit to what we as women can accomplish”. Happy International Women’s day 2025 from the team at Active Hand Rehab!

26/01/2025

✨Compression booster✨ step by step guide

You will need:
- Foam pieces (I cut up some foam strapping)
- Scissors
- Tape
- Tubular bandage (or you could a sock!)

24/12/2024

Merry Christmas from the team at Active Hand Rehab. What a year it has been! We celebrated Christmas learning to make pasta at an Italian cooking class… how very of us.

10/12/2024

We love meeting interesting clients in our hand therapy rehab sessions. What is more functional than needing your hands to make the world’s most delicious (and natural) chocolate .. thanks for treating us!

14/09/2024

HTNZ symposium 2024. An awesome day learning about the TFCC with keynote speaker Luke McCarron from Australia. If you ever run into Luke on your travels make sure to ask him about the Triquetrum…the sensitive soul of the wrist.

21/08/2024

Amazing time with some of New Zealand’s best hand therapists and hand surgeons at the NZ society of hand surgery meeting in Fiji. Loving the balance of work, wellness and family 👏

25/04/2024