As spring approaches, our patients are excited to return to some of their long-awaited outdoor activities! Today we are joined by Ryerson Stinson, a hand therapist and golf expert from Johns Hopkins in Baltimore, Maryland as he discusses the importance of individualizing programs for patients as they return to their sport.

Here's a little background about our guest!:

Ryerson is an Occupational Therapist and Certified Hand Therapist (CHT) who holds multiple advanced specialty certifications, including TPI M3, SFMA Level 2, and KVEST 3D. His clinical expertise spans hand and upper extremity rehabilitation, sports performance, and motion analysis. He has served as a guest lecturer and presenter for occupational therapy programs at Quinnipiac University and Iona College, and has presented nationally at conferences including the ASHT annual meeting, Georgia Hand and Upper Extremity Special Interest Group(GHUESIG), and APTA Combined Sections Meeting (CSM).

At Johns Hopkins, Ryerson is a Clinical Specialist andfaculty member for both the Hand Therapy Fellowship Program and the Physical Therapy Orthopedic Residency Program. He also serves as a lead clinical instructor for the Johns Hopkins Hospital Orthopedic Certification Program.Ryerson is also the director of the new Johns Hopkins GolfRehabilitation/Performance Program.

Beyond his clinical role, Ryerson is the founder ofOutPerform Golf LLC, a sports performance consulting company. Through this work, he frequently travels to golf performance facilities to evaluate athletes and collaborates on golf- and athlete-specific technology research and product development.

An accomplished competitive golfer, Ryerson continues to compete as a mid-amateur, qualifying for the 2024 U.S. Mid-Amateur Championship and winning the 2019 Southern Maryland Amateur. He enjoys skiing in the winter months with his wife, Jillian. Originally from Hanover, New Hampshire, Ryerson was a three-sport varsity athlete in golf, hockey, and lacrosse, and was recognized as an academic All-American.

How to reach Ryerson:

Clinical/Johns Hopkins: rstinso2@jhmi.edu

Consulting/Sports Performance: rye.outperformgolf@gmail.com

Linkedin:

linkedin.com

Mike Lennie, OTR/L, ATC, CHT has an undergraduate degreeand certification in Athletic Training from Southern Illinois University. Rehabilitating overhead athletes with the baseball and softball programs drove his interest to pursue a career in rehab for the UE. In 2011, he graduated from Midwestern University with his OT degree and has been working as an orthopedic OT since that time. He became a CHT in 2018. Currently he works as an OT coordinator @ Illinois Bone & Joint in the western suburbs of Chicago focusing most of his time on patient care and clinical education.

Link to the following free full text articles Mikediscussed during the episode:

Data-basedinterval throwing programs for baseball players - PubMed

Data-BasedInterval Throwing Programs for Collegiate Softball Players - PubMed

Mike can be reached at:

LinkedIn: Michael Lennie OTR/L, ATC, CHT

Instagram: UpperExtremityRehab

Email: Michael.Lennie34@gmail.com

Hand therapy isn’t limited to the outpatient setting—many patients begin their recovery in the hospital. Join us as we interview Adrienne Tesarek, OTR/L, CHT from San Diego, CA, who began her career working in the acute care environment then became a CHT in an outpatient setting. Adrienneshares her insights on working with patients during the early stages of recovery and highlights the key elements needed to prepare them for a successful transition to outpatient care. She also discusses the course she developed to help acute-care therapists sharpen their clinical problem-solving skills and better support hand therapy patients as they move from hospital to home and beyond.

Adrienne Tesarek is a graduate of Louisiana StateUniversity in New Orleans, Louisiana and moved to California after graduation. Her career started at UCSD Medical Center which was the first Level I trauma center in the area. She was an inpatient therapist before transitioning to the outpatient department where she mentored to sit for the hand exam. She became a CHT in 2005. Since that time, she has done teaching at Grossmont Community College in their OTA program and presented at OT conferences on custom orthotic fabrication and conservative management of thumb CMC OA and conservative management of carpal tunnel syndrome. In 2013 she moved to Los Angeles to work at UCLA and was a member of the Rehab Services Education Committee coordinatingcontinuing education for her fellow OT’s. Also, during her time in Los Angeles, she joined the non-profit Hand Therapy Society of Greater Los Angeles, serving as their secretary and is currently the president. She moved back to San Diegoin 2021 and currently works for Palomar Health in Poway, CA. She has taken the position of president of the San Diego Hand Special Interest Group and formed a new education committee at Palomar Health. She is currently gathering information on post-op complications following distal radius fractures for a study she is conducting as well as teaching a course on RehabEd on Managing acute hand injuries.

Adrienne is married and has 2 Greyhounds who have beenrescued from a racetrack that closed in neighboring Tijuana Mexico. She enjoys yoga, being outdoors and traveling.

Contact via- LinkedIn and email address: adriennespelyng@yahoo.com