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About Shamaine Soh, Principal Hand Occupational Therapist
Practising from Orchard · English, Mandarin and Hokkien · AHPC registered (A1302343D)
- BSc (Hons) in Occupational Therapy, Coventry University (United Kingdom)
- Diploma in Occupational Therapy, Nanyang Polytechnic (Singapore)
- AHPC Registered Occupational Therapist (Singapore), A1302343D
Your surgery went well. So why does your hand still feel stiff, tight and stuck?
That is the question I answer most weeks. After a fracture is fixed or a ligament is repaired, the scar keeps working long after the surgeon finishes. Scar tissue tightens on the surface and forms adhesions underneath, where healing tissue sticks to the tendons and structures that need to glide. The operation can be a complete success and the hand can still lose movement. That gap is the work hand therapy is for, and it is the work I care about most.
I have treated over 100 hand fracture cases since 2015, alongside finger ligament repairs, wrist fractures and TFCC rehabilitation. My focus within all of it is the same: the movement that stiffness and scarring take.
How I work.
Some patients need more than a set of exercises. They are anxious, the recovery has been hard, and they need someone willing to go at their pace and explain what is happening in the tissue. That is the part of this job I am best suited to, and it is why my appointments tend to run to the full time rather than finishing early.
How hands became my thing.
I have always paid my own way through courses to sharpen how I manage difficult hands. Stiffness after surgery is not glamorous work. It is slow, hands-on, millimetre-by-millimetre work, measured in degrees of range at each review. I find it the most interesting problem in hand therapy, because the change is something you can measure rather than something you have to take on faith.
Training.
Degree in Occupational Therapy from Coventry University, practising hand therapy since 2015, with a particular interest in the elbow and wrist. AHPC registered.
What I treat
- Stiffness, scar tightness and adhesions after hand or wrist surgery
- Hand and finger fractures
- Wrist fractures and TFCC rehabilitation
- Finger ligament repairs
Book with me directly.
I am in the clinic on Sundays at Orchard, for patients who cannot take leave on weekdays.
- ORCHARD (Sundays, mornings only), book with Shamaine
How the work is structured
Every plan I write runs on the Phoenix Recovery Protocol: four stages, each with criteria to meet before you leave it. Most of what I see arrives after an operation, and hand therapy after surgery sets out how those weeks are run. Hand therapy covers the conditions we treat without surgery.
Shamaine Soh is an AHPC Registered Occupational Therapist (A1302343D). Case counts on this page require verification before publication. Last reviewed: pending clinician sign-off.
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