Specialist assessment and rehabilitation for hand and wrist injuries, post-operative recovery and chronic conditions in Wimbledon, South West London. Alex Watson creates tailored treatment plans and bespoke splints on site designed to maximise function and independence.
Skilled Care for Your Hands
Your hands are remarkable tools. You create, work, communicate and care using them every day. When injury, pain or dysfunction affects your hand or wrist, simple tasks like buttoning a shirt or typing a message can become a challenge.
Hand therapy is a rehabilitation specialty that focuses on restoring function when there are changes in pain, strength and mobility in your hands, wrists or upper limb. It combines techniques from Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy such as exercise, splinting, wound care, scar interventions and joint mobilisation to provide non‑surgical management of hand and wrist disorders.
Put your hand recovery in the right hands in Mint wellbeing, Wimbledon, South West London.
What is Hand Therapy?
Hand therapy is more than a single treatment modality, it is a combination of specialist assessment, targeted rehabilitation and compassionate support through the recovery journey from injury, surgery or disease. We explore your underlying difficulties with a view to:
- Determine the cause of your pain or issue
- Reduce pain
- Reduce inflammation
- Improve hand and wrist efficiency
- Minimise the effects of scarring
The ultimate goal is to restore or maximise independence.
Hand therapists act as your resource and guide through your recovery. Hand therapy employs exercise, advice on daily activities, splinting and scar management amongst others. This holistic approach aims to promote your physical recovery while also providing emotional and psychological support through what can be a difficult and stressful time.
Conditions We Treat
Every hand is unique, and so are the conditions that affect it. Our service provides expert care for a wide range of injuries and long‑term conditions:
Tendon injuries
- Extensor carpi ulnaris tendinopathy
- De Quervain’s tenosynovitis
Wrists
Long‑term conditions
Trauma and closed injuries
Post‑operative rehabilitation
How Hand Therapy Helps
Whether you’re recovering from trauma, overuse injuries, surgery or managing a chronic condition, hand therapy offers many benefits.
Techniques and approaches to treat your hand and wrist may include:
- Home exercise programme, most of your recovery is determined by your day to day exercises and how your use your hands (functional rehabilitation)
- Structured rehabilitation and hands on therapy to restore range of motion
- Custom splinting and bracing
- Taping techniques
- Strengthening exercises
- Scar Management
- Stretching
- Ergonomic assessment
- Therapeutic Ultrasound
Aims of therapy:
- Return to everyday activities
- Improve independence
- Reintegration into hobbies and sports
- Information and advice to help you manage the condition effectively
- Improve dexterity
- Rebuild strength
Our Approach
You deserve the best care for your hands and we believe in goal‑oriented care that centres on you. Every client receives a thorough assessment and a personalised home‑based rehabilitation programme. We aim to provide timely treatment that fosters independence by equipping you with the skills and knowledge to manage your condition. We offer custom‑moulded splints, exercise programmes and education to support your recovery.
Our team collaborates closely with surgeons, GPs, physiotherapists and other healthcare professionals to ensure seamless care.
Begin Your Recovery Journey
If hand pain or dysfunction is affecting your quality of life, Alex Watson, our Specialist Hand Therapist is here to help. With expert knowledge, compassionate care and evidence‑based techniques, we can help you reduce pain, restore function and return to the activities that matter most to you.
Get back to what you love.
Alex Watson
Occupational Therapist Specialist in Hand Therapy
BSc Honours in Occupational Therapy. Member of RCOT, BAHT, BSSH
Alex Watson is a highly experienced Occupational Therapist and Hand Therapist with over 20 years of NHS clinical experience across physical health, older people’s mental health and forensic mental health services. For the past 11 years, Alex has specialised exclusively in hand and wrist therapy, helping patients recover from injury, surgery and long-term conditions through expert rehabilitation and personalised treatment. Alex holds a BSc (Hons) in Occupational Therapy and is a member of the Royal College of Occupational Therapists (RCOT), the British Association of Hand Therapists (BAHT) and the British Society for Surgery of the Hand (BSSH).
Alex specialises in the assessment and treatment of a wide range of hand and wrist conditions, including fractures, soft tissue injuries, tendon repairs, post-operative rehabilitation, scar management, arthritis, hypermobility and tendon overuse injuries. With a particular interest in restoring wrist function, Alex combines evidence-based rehabilitation with a practical, problem-solving approach tailored to each individual patient. Alex also designs and creates bespoke custom splints to support recovery, improve function and reduce pain across a variety of hand and wrist conditions.
Outside the clinic, Alex enjoys practising Tai Chi, swimming and DIY projects, skills that have even helped inspire bespoke functional adaptations and aids for patients during rehabilitation. A dedicated South African-style braai enthusiast, Alex currently owns three barbecues and is already making a case for a fourth!
What our patients say
I saw Amy for physio after shoulder surgery, and she was amazing! Amy tailored each session and genuinely cared throughout my recovery. The clinic itself was excellent. It was really comfortable, well-equipped, and welcoming.
Jay Barclay
This place is excellent! I’ve been doing post natal rehab and return to strength here for last 4 months and it’s just a fantastic place. Candice who trains the mum and baby restore classes is excellent!
