Lunch Sessions
How to Screen for Partial-Hand Prosthetic Candidacy with Naked Prosthetics | 1:45 PM - 2:15 PM
Description:
Hand therapists provide critical, timely care to patients with traumatic partial-hand limb loss. During the early healing stages, preparing the hand for function in life can prepare the hand for function in a prosthesis. For many people, prosthesis adoption has the power to positively impact a person’s recovery of meaning, value, and purpose. Getting a prosthesis is a multi-step process which involves an interdisciplinary team of surgeon, therapist, prosthetist, and device manufacturer. This webinar will help guide therapists through the early steps to screen patients for prosthetic intervention with Naked Prosthetics. Evidence-based and accessible for all levels of hand therapy practitioners.
Objective(s):
- List at least 2 psychosocial impacts which a person may experience after traumatic partial-hand limb loss
- Identify how a patient’s hand presentation, or level of amputation, is important when screening for current available prosthetic designs.
- Describe the importance of assessing a patient’s goals during prosthetic candidacy screening.
- Identify the 2 types of prosthetic designs made by Naked Prosthetics
Speaker(s):
Preparing for the CHT Exam – Presented by HTCC
Description:
This session will describe detailed statistics regarding the Hand Therapy Certification Examination, examination procedure and analysis, along with insights from new CHTs about their successful preparation strategies.
Objective(s):
- Identify trends in OT/PT credentialing for the CHT.
- Identify composition of test by content.
- Identify two successful strategies to study for the CHT Exam.
- Identify CHT Exam procedures for the day of the test.