The Brattleboro Memorial Hospital Rehab Department is happy to announce the addition of a new occupational therapist. Orthotist Teri K. Mauler, OTR/L, will provide outpatient, inpatient, acute rehab, and acute care services for upper extremity specialized care with an emphasis on rehabilitation for the hands. As an orthotist, Teri will also be able to provide orthotic consultations.
Teri has specialized in hand and upper extremity care for 23 years. Teri comes to BMH after serving as a hand therapist at Rutland Regional Medical Center. Before that she was in private practice in Cortland (NY) for eight years, having been an occupational therapist at The Cortland Memorial Hospital for the five previous years. Teri also worked as chief occupational therapist at the Corning Hospital and Founders Pavilion in Corning, NY.
The new BMH occupational therapist received her bachelor of science degree in occupational therapy from Utica College of Syracuse University, during which time she worked at several local hospitals as an occupational therapist. Teri then received her Certificate of Orthotics at the Orthotic – Prosthetic Center of Northwestern University Medical School, after which she served an orthotics residency at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation (OH).
Teri is a member of both the American Occupational Therapy Association and the American Society of Hand Therapists. Her continuing education has been extensive, with more recent courses including Surgery and Rehabilitation of the Hand Symposium in March of this year; Hand and Upper Extremity Rehab: Applying Evidence to Clinical Practice in June, 2009; and Surgery and Rehabilitation of the Hand Symposium in 2007.