One Condition. One Plan. Week by Week.
The articles on this site tell you what your condition is and which window it runs on. The plans tell you what to do about it, week by week: 6 to 8 weeks for a condition you’re treating at home, 12 weeks to the whole year for a recovery after a fracture or surgery.
Each one is the plan I use in clinic, written down: which splint and how many hours, what to stop and what to change, the exercises in order with the stop rules, an honest chapter on what to do when it isn’t working, and a printable log so you can see whether it’s working before your feelings tell you.
Written by Nigel Chua, hand occupational therapist in practice since 2005. Thousands of hands, wrists and elbows assessed and treated. PDF, delivered by email the moment you pay. $27 each. If a plan doesn’t help you understand your condition and what to do about it, email me within 90 days for a full refund.
The De Quervain’s Plan
Thumb-side wrist pain. Splint and tendon loading, 6 weeks. For new parents, phone and keyboard users, trades and sport, and anyone whose splint hasn’t fixed it.
20 pages. $27.
The Trapeziectomy Plan
The year after thumb base surgery. Week by week with stop rules, the three clocks your recovery runs on, how to get pinch back, and when to stop waiting. With or without a tendon sling.
23 pages. $27.
The Trigger Finger Plan
A finger that clicks, catches or locks. Splint, glide, decide, 8 weeks. Which joint to splint, the two splints, how to change your grip, and the week to stop waiting and talk to a doctor.
21 pages. $27.
The Carpal Tunnel Plan
Numb, tingling fingers at night. Night splint and nerve glide, 6 weeks. The brace angle most people get wrong, the hours that matter, the glides in order, and the signs the nerve has stopped waiting.
21 pages. $27.
The Wrist Fracture Plan
Recovery after a distal radius fracture, 12 weeks, mapped to cast, wires and plate. What to do from day 1 in the cast, the first weeks of wrist movement, range then load, and the complications worth knowing by name.
24 pages. $27.
The Scaphoid Fracture Plan
The small wrist bone that heals slowly and lies about it. Protect, move everything else, prove it’s healed. 12 weeks.
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Not sure which window you’re in?
Start with the free Closing Window Chart: 15 hand, wrist and elbow conditions, whether each window is open, closing or shut, and the red flags for each.
Every plan is education, not an assessment or a diagnosis. Your doctor’s or surgeon’s instructions come first wherever they differ.