Edel Kelly

Director of Hand Solutions and Senior Clinician

Education and Qualification

Qualified as a Physiotherapist in Belfast Northern Ireland (UUJ 1990)
Certified Hand Therapist (USA)
Research Maters ( First class Honours 2011) : in vivo tendon excursion in the hand and dequervains tenosynovitis

Experience

22 years of experience with Hand and Upper Limb
AUT paper leader and Lecturer for the Post graduate paper in Hand and Upper Limb rehabilitation (2007-2017)
Managed the Hand Therapy team at Middlemore Hospital Counties Manukau DHB (1997-2005)

Skills and Specials Interests

Tendon mechanics and rehabilitation
Wrist and elbow injuries
Complex trauma
Pain Management
Acupuncture
Research
Repetitive strain and Overuse
Golfing injuries
Postoperative splinting for Dupytrens fasciotomy
Ulnar sided wrist pain and diagnostics
Extensor tendon rehabilitation and Relative motions splinting
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome and advanced practice service model evaluation

Edels Publications

Kelly, E, Ellis, R., Hing, W., (2018). Ultrasound assessment of Extensor Pollicis Brevis tendon excursion in different wrist positions in healthy people. Journal of Hand Therapy (Feb )

Collocott, S., Kelly, C. E., & Ellis, R. (2017). Optimal early active mobilisation protocol after extensor tendon repairs in zone V and VI: A systematic review of literature”. Hand, 11(1 Suppl), 141S-142S. doi:10.1177/1558944716660555jw

JHT 2018 EPB tendon excursion US

Collis, J., Collocott, S., Hing, W., & Kelly, E. (2013). The effect of night extension orthoses following surgical release of Dupuytren contracture: a single-center, randomized, controlled trial.. J Hand Surg Am, 38(7), 1285-94.e2. doi:10.1016/j.jhsa.2013.04.012

Edels Presentations

IFSSHT World Congress Buenos Aires Argentina (2016)
NZOA and HTNZ Queenstown
ASH Annual Meeting (2011), Nashville USA
HTNZ Annual Meeting (2011) Napier NZ
Arthritis NZ