Dose & direction
Unclear dose can stall recovery.
Question: Am I doing enough, doing too much, or doing the wrong movements?
The go-to hand therapy app
Rebuild confidence in your hands
Track pain, stiffness, grip, dexterity, and hand function from home. Follow guided routines, understand your progress, and share clearer updates with your therapist or care team.
Built for people recovering from injury, surgery, chronic hand pain, nerve symptoms, arthritis, carpal tunnel symptoms, or declining hand strength.
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Research-informed, patient-first, and designed to support care between visits. Not a replacement for professional medical advice.
Education and tracking between visits — not medical advice.
For you today
Picks from data saved in this browser — sessions you have logged, your saved check-ins, and your personalize profile. Nothing is uploaded by default.
Your history stays on this device — pick a small step that fits how your hand feels today.
When you use Today, guided sessions, or Personalize, this area fills in with gentle, specific suggestions — all offline-first.
Educational support only — not a diagnosis or treatment plan. Stop rules.
The problem
Hand recovery is hard to manage alone
Your hands are part of nearly everything you do. Recovery happens in the gaps between appointments — that's where people need better feedback, safer guidance, and a simple way to see whether things are improving.
Symptom signal
Track signals before they escalate.
Question: Is this stiffness normal, or is something getting worse?
Between visits
Bring a clearer update to visits.
Question: How do I explain what changed since my last appointment?
Safe today
Choose safer actions on flare days.
Question: What can I safely do today if my hand hurts more than usual?
Consistency
Keep progress going with less effort.
Question: How do I stay consistent when even using an app can be painful?
Searching for the NHS hand therapy app? See an independent, cited comparison with the Chelsea & Westminster trust app — then try HandTherapy.app in your browser.
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The scale of the problem
Hand injuries are common, costly, and under-supported
Every stat below links to its primary source. Pause on hover or focus.
- 2.6M
U.S. emergency visits each year involve hand or wrist injuries
Source: ResearchGate - 10–30%
of all emergency department visits are hand and wrist injuries
Source: PMC - 102,350
hand injuries led to missed workdays in one year (plus 28,410 wrist)
Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics - 186,830
workplace hand and wrist injuries involved days away from work
Source: Energy Workforce & Technology Council - 15 days
median missed workdays caused by a wrist injury
Source: Injury Facts - ~5M
work-related finger, hand, and wrist injuries from 2015–2022
Source: PubMed - ~20%
of ED visits are hand injuries — a major economic burden
Source: Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery - 33%
of workplace cases with days away from work involve upper-extremity injuries
Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics - 23%+
of preventable workplace injuries and lost workdays involve fingers and hands
Source: NGWA - $15K–$85K
per case for work-related musculoskeletal disorders (indirect costs often 2–3×)
Source: WorkCare
How it works
A simple recovery loop for the days between visits
Small steps designed to fit a sore, tired, recovering hand.
Measure
Daily signals become visible trends.
Log pain, stiffness, swelling, numbness, weakness, grip, range of motion, dexterity, and daily function.
Guide
Guidance tailored to your hand.
Follow short routines matched to your condition, affected hand, pain level, mobility limits, and recovery goals.
Track
Progress shown clearly over time.
See trends over time so progress feels visible, not mysterious.
Adjust
Scale intensity up or down safely.
Back off when symptoms increase. Build gradually when symptoms stay stable.
Share
Share concise updates with clinicians.
Export a simple weekly summary for your therapist, clinician, surgeon, caregiver, or care team.
Why it matters
A personal hand recovery companion, not a replacement for care
HandTherapy.app helps people stay consistent and informed between appointments, and gives care teams better context when progress is hard to explain from memory.
For patients
Daily clarity without replacing your care team.
- Know what to do today
- Track pain, stiffness, grip, dexterity, and function
- Avoid pushing through warning signs
- Build confidence using the hand again
- Share clearer updates instead of guessing
For therapists & care teams
Better between-visit context, not a second EMR.
- See between-visit symptom trends
- Review adherence and routine completion
- Get clearer patient-reported progress summaries
- Reduce vague follow-up updates
- Support safer home consistency
What's inside
Designed around sore, tired, recovering hands
Every feature exists to make hand recovery clearer, safer, and easier to stick with.
Measure your hand progress
Fast check-ins for each hand.
Log left and right hand separately in under 30 seconds. See pain, stiffness, grip, and dexterity trends over time.
Personalized onboarding
Start from your real hand story.
Tell the app your condition, affected hand, comfort level, and goals — it shapes a safer starting path.
Hands-light UX
Designed for sore, fatigued hands.
Large controls, voice-friendly check-ins, audio guidance, and fewer taps when every tap hurts.
Phone-based exercises
Practice therapy from your phone.
Camera, screen, motion, and audio guidance support gentle movement practice without buying equipment.
Personalized routines
Routines adapt to daily recovery status.
Short routines that adapt to your symptoms, pain, fatigue, and recovery stage. Even a 2-minute session counts.
Risk education
Know warning signs sooner.
Plain-language guidance on warning signs, recovery patterns, and when to seek professional care.
Explore all features
Safety cues, check-ins, routines, and learn content — in your browser today.
Two libraries, two jobs: exercises are the things you time in a session; movements are the building blocks behind them. Preview rows below — swipe on small screens, arrows on larger ones.
Exercise library
Open exercise hub Session-ready moves
Timers, reps, equipment tags, and stop rules — tuned for guided practice, not just browsing.
Movement library
Open movement hub Anatomy & motion presets
Goals, body regions, phases, and risk labels — the catalog your sessions pull from.
Who it's for
Built for people who depend on their hands
Acute injuries
Support for early-stage recovery.
Fractures, cuts, crush injuries, tendon injuries, burns, sports injuries, post-surgical recovery.
Chronic or declining hand health
Manage chronic changes with clarity.
Arthritis, carpal tunnel symptoms, neuropathy, chronic stiffness, reduced grip, weakness, numbness.
Congenital hand differences
Adapt to your hand, not averages.
Routines that adapt to your hand — not someone else's standard baseline.
High-dexterity workers
Protect precision for work and craft.
Surgeons, mechanics, jewelers, sewists, artists, musicians, electricians — when work depends on hands.
Browse job-shaped patient profiles (education, not clearance).
Work-shaped hand loads
Hands-on jobs and desk precision
Jump into education profiles for trades, retail, beauty, clinical fine motor work, and more — then refine intake on Prescribe.
Desk & codingTrades & toolsKitchen & line workHair & salonMusic & stageClinical fine motorAssembly & factoryFarming & outdoor laborDriving & vibration toolsDental & pinch-heavy workNew parent (bottle wrist)Thumb & pinch-heavy workCleaning & janitorialRetail & packing linesBeauty & nail deskTeaching & boards
Open patient hub (hand-heavy shortcuts)Tune work context (education, not clearance).
Research-informed
Designed with caution, informed by evidence
HandTherapy.app uses research as a trust layer without overstating clinical proof.
Directory
Find a hand therapist
Curated profiles with public sources — informational only, not booking.
Evidence-grounded reads for your recovery journey
Medically cautious explainers with cited sources, linked to our learn library and exercises when they overlap with your questions.
Founder context
Built from a real access problem
HandTherapy.app started from a simple frustration: hand recovery is expensive, confusing, and difficult to measure when you are outside the clinic.
The founder experienced repeated hand injuries and could not afford consistent physical therapy. Without insurance, even basic care felt expensive. There was no simple patient-first way to know whether hand function was improving, whether stiffness was normal, or whether pain and weakness were trending in the wrong direction.
HandTherapy.app is being built around the patient's daily experience: what hurts, what changed, what to do today, when to stop, and how to share progress with care.
Common questions
What people ask before joining
- Is HandTherapy.app a replacement for hand therapy or a doctor?
- No. HandTherapy.app supports safer between-visit consistency, symptom awareness, and progress tracking. It does not diagnose, cure, or replace professional medical care.
- What does the app actually track?
- Pain, stiffness, swelling, numbness, weakness, fatigue, grip, range of motion, dexterity, and routine completion — left and right hand separately.
- Who is it for?
- People recovering from hand injury or surgery, and people managing arthritis, carpal tunnel symptoms, nerve symptoms, chronic pain, weakness, stiffness, or age-related decline. Also high-dexterity workers protecting hand function.
- When is it available?
- A native iPhone and Android app is planned later; email signup is paused for now. Guided exercises, Today, and Learn already run in your browser.
- Does my data leave my device?
- By default, no. Daily check-ins and exercise sessions are stored locally in your browser. Cloud sync and exports are explicit opt-in actions.
Hand therapy shop
Gear that fits real hand tasks
Find products to help your hands — deals and search picks from top ecommerce shops. Education only: we don't sell these items here.
From the Learn library
Short reads that pair with recovery
Explore vetted education on conditions, anatomy, joints, surgeries, and splints — designed to complement exercises and marketplace picks, not replace your care team.
- Learn hubPersonas, household drills, co-injuries, and topic hubs in one place.Open in Learn
- ConditionsWhat to expect, timelines, and when to escalate — education only.Open in Learn
- Anatomy primersPlain-language structure so instructions from care make more sense.Open in Learn
- Joint atlasTap-through hand joints with vetted references and quick links.Open in Learn
- SurgeriesRecovery-oriented overviews tied to movements you might practice.Open in Learn
- Splints & supportsTypes, tradeoffs, and questions worth asking your clinician.Open in Learn
Your hands deserve better feedback
Whether you are recovering from an injury, managing chronic pain, rebuilding after surgery, or trying to protect the work you do with your hands, HandTherapy.app helps you understand what is changing and what to do next.
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Coming soon on
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