Personalized physical therapy to help you use your hands with greater comfort, strength, and confidence.
When pain and stiffness make routine chores, work, typing, gripping, or favorite activities difficult, Cutting Edge Physical Therapy can help identify the source of your symptoms and create a plan for getting back to what you love.
Do you find yourself unable to use your hands and do things that used to be simple? Do you experience pain and stiffness in your hands that you cannot seem to get rid of? If pain impacts your enjoyment of life and makes routine chores more challenging to complete, Cutting Edge Physical Therapy can help.
We understand that pain in your hands can make even the most basic activity difficult or impossible. The good news is that physical therapy can help you get the hand pain relief you need and help you get back to doing what you love.
Any injury to the hand carries the potential for severe limitations and loss of function. Proper identification and treatment of traumatic and overuse hand injuries are important for preventing persistent pain, joint restrictions, potential nerve damage, and loss of function.
There are many reasons you may be experiencing hand pain. Our therapists look beyond a single painful area and consider the entire upper extremity to identify factors contributing to your condition.
The carpal tunnel is a narrow opening in the wrist along the palm of the hand. It protects the median nerve, blood vessels, and tendons used to bend the fingers. When the median nerve becomes irritated or compressed, it can cause tingling and numbness in the hand or fingers—often the thumb, index, middle, or ring fingers.
Carpal tunnel is often associated with repetitive lifting, gripping, forceful wrist motion, typing, writing, and activities such as golf, tennis, pickleball, or rock climbing. Symptoms can progress to weakness and difficulty holding items. Our team can provide safe, comfortable, non-surgical care for carpal tunnel syndrome.
Tendinopathy describes a problem with a tendon, including disease, injury, or disorder. Tendinitis is inflammation of a tendon, often following an acute injury or small partial tear. Tendinosis is commonly used for overuse-related tendon dysfunction and can be slower to heal.
Tendon injuries in the hand and fingers can be particularly debilitating. These tendons may tolerate less load than larger tendons in the body, so careful guidance is important to help prevent lasting problems, persistent disability, and reinjury.
The ulnar, radial, and median nerves travel from the neck through the arm, elbow, wrist, and hand. Trauma from falls, accidents, or power tools—as well as traction and compression injuries from repetitive athletic stress—can affect how these nerves function.
Numbness, tingling, and temperature loss can signal a nerve-related problem. Overuse conditions such as carpal tunnel syndrome or De Quervain’s may include swelling that affects nerve function. A severe injury can also disrupt muscle function.
Falls and crush-type injuries commonly cause hand fractures. A fall onto an outstretched hand, twisting injury, impact to the hand, punching, or jamming a finger during basketball or football can all result in injury.
Casts, splints, or other immobilization may be needed while bones heal. Because the hand and fingers can become stiff and weak after immobilization, physical therapy can help minimize restrictions and support a return to using your hand without limits.
Physical therapy and hand therapy can support healthier joint function and help you return to the activities that matter to you.
Your therapist will evaluate your symptoms, movement, strength, and functional limitations to understand what is interfering with daily life.
Because nerves and movement patterns travel through the neck, shoulder, elbow, wrist, and hand, care considers the complete upper extremity—not only the painful location.
We provide guidance tailored to your condition so you can rehabilitate thoroughly, restore function, and return to the activities you enjoy.
Physical and hand therapy are targeted, personalized treatment options designed around your specific needs. If hand pain is interfering with your daily life, it is time to seek help from a physical therapist.
Contact Cutting Edge Physical Therapy to schedule an appointment with one of our skilled therapists in Murray, Utah.