Desensitization and Sensory Re-education help patients regain full hand and upper extremity function
Sometimes, the healing process involves more than the closing of a wound. Continued pain or a hypersensitivity to touch, pressure, or temperature can all occur after an injury. Desensitization slowly introduces the sensitive areas to normal forms of touch and temperature to reacclimate them during recovery. Sensory re-education helps to adapt the brain’s response to injured areas by retraining accurate assessments of object shape, size, texture, and location. In other words, at IRG, we can help you feel right again.
We provide therapy for conditions such as:
- Amputation
- Arthritis
- Burns
- Carpal tunnel syndrome
- Cumulative trauma
- Nerve injuries
- Reflex sympathetic dystrophy
- Soft tissue injuries
- Surgical and non-surgical fractures
- Tendinitis and trigger finger
- Tendon lacerations
- Wrist and elbow injuries