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Give a hand for Hand Therapy version 2!
The award-winning version 1 of the Hand Therapy app, produced by Imagineear for the
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, has now been surpassed by the
newly-released version 2.
The new version provides 44 additional video exercises and new beneficial functionality for
people rehabilitating from hand, wrist, finger and thumb injuries.
Working collaboratively with Hayley Fay, Occupational Therapist and Clinical Lead for Hand
Therapy at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Imagineear provided
expert video recording and editing services to produce the new video exercises, recorded
over two days in the cinema suite at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital under pandemic
restrictions.
Filmed with special permission during lockdown, Imagineear used a dual camera set-up to
capture wide and close up footage of clinically approved exercises, whilst simultaneously
recording narration from Hayley Fay.
In addition to the new video content, Imagineear further developed Hand Therapy to include
new features that allow patients to set goals towards recovery, track progress by recording
the number of exercises completed, video record tailored exercises under supervision to
upload into their home programme, and a video loop option allowing patients to easily repeat
the core footage of a specific exercise.
Winning “The Christina Allegri award for Innovation in Hand Therapy at this year’s
international hand conference was a tremendous accolade and testimony to what we have
achieved in using smartphone technology to support the patients journey to recovery. The
delivery of more video content, personalised exercise programmes, educational treatment
information with goal setting aims to further improves comprehension and compliance with
home rehabilitation. I look forward to measuring the apps impact through our planned
evaluation work.” – Hayley Fay, Occupational Therapist and Clinical Lead for Hand Therapy
at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.

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For further information please contact:
Julia Laflin Imagineear Ltd julialaflin@imagineear.com
About Imagineear Health
Imagineear Health is a specialist healthcare division of Imagineear Ltd, a multi-award-winning media company providing multimedia solutions for visitor attractions and the cultural sector. The health division grew out of a hybrid project with CW+ at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in London, where Imagineear pioneered 'art as therapy' solutions with the hospital’s outstanding art collection. In the decade since, Imagineear has brought our best practice app-building focus and tool-set to health issues about which we feel strongly, and where, as a company we feel we can make a small but positive difference to the world.