ASHT Blog
Posted by Linda Klein, OTR, CHT on
Are you interested in being involved in the future of the profession of hand and upper extremity therapy? Are you a team player with leadership and organizational skills? Then ASHT needs you!
We are in the process of accepting nominations for the ASHT Board of Directors for…
Posted by Jane Fedorczyk, PT, PhD, CHT on
Evelyn J. Mackin, matriarch of hand therapy, passed away on February 19, 2020. To echo her words, “she had a good run.” She would want all of us to celebrate her life and contributions to the hand therapy profession instead of weeping her loss. She was 97 years old and remained active in…
Posted by Melanie Hubbuck, MS on
Call to all hand therapy researchers! ASHT is seeking hand therapy researchers to share their work related to rehabilitation of the upper extremity at this year’s annual meeting in San Antonio, TX from October 1-4, 2020. This meeting will be co-located with the American Society for Surgery of…
Posted by Kimberly Masker, OTD, OTR/L, CHT on
“The best way to predict your future is to create it” – Abraham Lincoln
More occupational and physical therapy students than ever before are taking their passion for hand therapy and making thoughtful and directed goals for their future even before graduation. I have more students than ever…
Posted by Cindy Clare Ivy, M.ED, OTD, CHT on
Have you ever read an abstract to an article and thought you have found a great therapeutic solution to a problem only to find out later that the research was flawed, or inconclusive or stating something entirely different than what it appeared in the abstract? A critically appraised topic (CAT) is…