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Therapist Brings Back
Use To Injured Hand

NINA BERNARDI SPECIAL THE JEWISH NEWS

he hand, it is said, distin-
guishes man from beast.
With an opposable thumb
and a framework of 27
bones, the hand is both graceful
and strong. Its grip can be pow-
erful enough to crush a raw Ida-
ho potato or light enough to pluck
a complicated melody from a gui-
tar.
But the hand's intricate net-
work of bone and tissue can be
reduced to nothing in seconds un-
der a punch press. Or, in Mike
Dube's case, an exploding truck
tire.
'When it first happened, I
couldn't make a fist," said Dube,
24, a truck driver from Elgin, Ill.,
displaying a swollen right hand
at the end of a forearm cast. "I
couldn't touch my (pointer) fin-
ger to my thumb."
Dube was rolling out a spare
truck tire when it suddenly ex-
ploded, fracturing his right arm
in four places.
Surgery repaired the frayed
connections. Plates and screws
were inserted to hold his bones
together. But only therapy would
help him turn unresponsive fin-
gers back into working ap-
pendages.
Since his August accident,
Dube has gone to regular thera-

py sessions at Elgin's Sherman
Health Resource Center. So far,
he has regained about one-third
of the mobility he lost in the ac-
cident, he said.
"Our goal is to get them a func-
tional hand so they can manage
daily living tasks," said Eileen
Brusso, a hand therapist there.
Hand therapy is a relatively
new branch of the occupational
therapy spectrum. It began in the
1970s out of necessity as techno-
logical advances allowed doctors
to do what was once impossible -
reattach severed fingers and
hands using microscopes.
There are only 2,200 certified
hand therapists in North Amer-
ica.
To become a hand therapist,
Brusso spent 2,000 hours work-
ing strictly with hand patients
after having worked five years as
an occupational therapist. She
also passed a certification exam
to claim the title. Hand thera-
pists are not required to obtain a
separate state license. But state
licenses are mandatory for occu-
pational and physical therapists.
She works with patients in the
corner of a gymnasium-sized re-
habilitation room, past rows of
special equipment and a hy-
drotherapy pool.O