St Joseph's Health Care London - St Joseph's Hospital - Roth McFarlane Hand and Upper Limb Centre

Procédé et formulaires

Medical referral required * emergency referrals are faxed to the clinic and triaged by the doctor on call

Admissibilité / population desservie

People with disorders of the shoulder, elbow, wrist and hand, including those due to congenital anomalies, trauma, arthritis and tumours

Frais

Most services covered by OHIP

Langues

English

Notes sur la langue

Interpretation available upon request * advance notice appreciated

Zone(s) desservie(s)

Southwestern Ontario

Accessibilité

Accessible en fauteuil roulant

Description des services:

Combined orthopedic and plastic surgery unit specializing in the care of patients with disorders of the upper limb

Program includes:

a bioengineering lab
mechatronics lab
cell and molecular biology lab
clinical research lab

specialized rehabilitation services provided by a team of hand therapists, including:

occupational therapists
physiotherapists

Surgeons do combined clinics with rehabilitation doctors and rheumatologists in London * children are seen in the HULC clinics, but have their operations performed by HULC surgeons at the Children's Hospital of Western Ontario

Services et programmes:

Hand Therapy

Qui sommes-nous ?

The Roth McFarlane Hand and Upper Limb Centre includes surgeons, scientists, therapists, nurses, cast technicians, secretaries and others, and has become the largest upper extremity surgical unit in Canada.