Written for hand therapy specialists and non-specialists, Cooper's Fundamentals of Hand Therapy, 3rd Edition emphasizes treatment fundamentals, and provides tips and guidelines for hand therapy practice. This easy-to-use illustrated text and reference guide helps further develop your clinical reasoning skills by describing what goes into the evaluation process, highlighting the humanistic side of each encounter through case studies, and providing the wisdom the contributing authors have acquired through years of practice. This new edition also features additional chapters on the use of common physical agents and orthoses, plus added content on how to integrate evidence-based findings into daily hand practice. Amazon.com summary.

Previous edition: published as Fundamentals of hand therapy. 2014.

PART ONE: FUNDAMENTALS -- 1. Fundamentals: Hand Therapy Concepts and Treatment Techniques -- 2. Evidence-Based Practice: The Basic Tools -- 3. Functional Anatomy -- 4. Evaluation of the Hand and Upper Extremity -- 5. Assessment of Functional Outcomes -- 6. Hand Coordination -- 7. Orthoses: Essential Concepts -- 8. Fundamentals of Edema Management -- 9. Physical Agent Modalities in the Hand Clinic -- 10. Tissue-Specific Exercises for the Upper Extremity -- 11. Clinical Reasoning and Problem Solving in Upper Extremity Rehabilitation -- 12. Fundamentals of Client-Therapist Rapport -- 13. Facilitating Adherence to the Plan of Care -- 14. Narratives in Hand Therapy -- 15. Utilization of Therapy Assistants in Hand Therapy -- 16. Some Thoughts on Professionalism -- PART TWO: CLINICAL REASONING AND TREATMENT GUIDELINES FOR COMMON DIAGNOSIS OF THE UPPER EXTREMITY -- 17. Wound Care -- 18. Common Shoulder Diagnoses -- 19. Elbow Diagnoses -- 20. Peripheral Nerve Problems -- 21 Wrist Fractures -- 22 Wrist Instabilities -- 23. Hand Fractures -- 24. Elbow, Wrist, and Hand Tendinopathies -- 25. Finger Sprains and Deformities -- 26. Extensor Tendon Injury -- 27. Flexor Tendon Injury -- 28. Tendon and Nerve Transfers -- 29. Arthritis -- 30. Burns -- 31. Infections -- 32. Dupuytren Contracture -- 33. Ganglions and Tumors of the Hand and Wrist -- 34. Traumatic Hand Injury Involving Multiple Structures -- 35. The Stiff Hand -- 36. The Neurological Hand -- 37. Complex Regional Pain Syndrome -- 38. Chemotherapy-Induced Peripheral Neuropathy -- 39. Clients With Functional Somatic Syndrome or Challenging Behavior.