The 8th Southampton Hand Course 2013

The Southampton Hand Team is pleased to announce this year's course for Therapists and Surgeons. It will be held on Friday 28th June at the Chilworth Manor Hotel in Southampton. This year's course, Instability in the Upper Limb, will include the following topics: wrist and hand instabilities, distal radio-ulnar joint, elbow and shoulder instabilities and Connective Tissue Disorders including Hypermobility Syndrome. The course will presented by local and invited faculty and will contain a practical workshop.

We have been running a joint Hand Surgeons and Hand Therapists Course in Southampton since 2005. The course was formally known as the Wessex Instructional Hand Course.

A wide range of topics previously covered include; bone and joint injuries of the hand, arthritis of the wrist and hand, elbows, flexor and extensor tendon injuries and wrist injuries. Our most recent course in 2012 on Nerve disorders included compressions syndromes, neurophysiology, neurodynamics and the 'double crush syndrome' and nerve assessment workshops.

We are pleased to announce the Southampton Hand course has recently received a highly commended Wessex Deanery Educational Quality Award.

We have also had a review published in the British Medical Journal in September 2012 from a previous course participant. Download PDF

To book a place on the course then please download and return the completed application form.

If you have any queries please email info@southamptonhandcourse.org.uk or telephone Linda or Peter on 023 8079 6459 .