CRMC’s team includes Certified Hand Therapist Rose Bankers. She provides state-of-the-art treatment techniques for the finger, hand, wrist, forearm, elbow, and shoulder using advanced knowledge and skill of the orthopedic rehabilitation process. Our Certified Hand Therapist is an occupational therapist trained to address the physical, social, and emotional effects that can occur as the result of hand injury or condition. Our goal is to return you to the function you enjoy and need to do for work, home life, and hobbies. You may need occupational hand therapy for a variety of reasons. This could mean a one-time visit or a series of treatments over multiple weeks.  To maximize patient care, provide ease of communication between team members and for patient convenience, hand therapy is located within CRMC or at its Baxter Clinic. Frequently, the physician will request an initial evaluation to test your strength, range of motion, dexterity, and sensation. Therapy may be ordered before or after surgery for strengthening, desensitization, exercise, active and passive range of motion, and other techniques used to facilitate healing and restore function.