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About Hand Therapy Treatment and Education Center, LLP
Hand Therapy Treatment and Education Center, LLP, in Brunswick, Maine, increases access to occupational hand therapy for patients throughout the state. Specialist Mary Woodbury, OTR/L, CHT, evaluates and rehabilitates a wide variety of upper extremity injuries and complications that limit patients’ functional abilities.
Mary has over 30 years of clinical experience as a hand therapist and holds an advanced designation as a certified hand therapist. She has served patients across the country throughout her lengthy career.
Hand Therapy Treatment and Education Center, LLP, routinely rehabilitates many common upper extremity injuries, including lacerations, tendinitis, burns, sprains, fractures, and arthritis. Mary also specializes in rehabilitating traumatic injuries that lead to amputation and training patients to function with prosthetics.
In addition to providing personalized hand therapy and patient rehabilitation, Hand Therapy Treatment and Education Center, LLP, is a teaching clinic. The practice trains students and professionals in the foundations of occupational therapy, including self-care awareness, treatments that use physical agents, and custom splinting.
Patients can schedule with Mary by calling Hand Therapy Treatment and Education Center, LLP, or using the convenient online scheduling button.
More About Our Team
Mary Woodbury, OTR/L, CHT
Mary has 30 years clinical experience as a hand therapist providing specialized hand therapy treatment of the hand and upper extremities, including shoulders and neck; her clinical skills are superior. She holds an advanced designation as a Certified Hand Therapist, CHT. Mary’s experience includes treating hand injuries and conditions found throughout metropolitan areas such as Kansas City, Missouri and Washington, DC, to hand conditions and injuries encountered throughout a rural state like Maine. Most of Mary’s years in practice have been in the Mid Coast, and Western, and Central Maine Regions of Maine.
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Over the course of her 30+ year occupational therapy career, Mary Woodbury has learned that it’s important to be curious and always be learning new things. She says, “Having a genuine interest in helping people and the drive to educate yourself are qualities that make a great Occupational Therapist.”
Mary’s early career involved working in rehabilitation units where she developed a broad understanding of the role of occupational therapy in healthcare. During this time, she became interested in hand therapy. “I love the specialty of hands because you need to learn as much as you can about the hand and arm to be able to administer at the right kind of care at the right time.”
Mary saw the need for hand specialists in rural Maine and realized the impact she could make on a broad range of people. “Everybody needs to use their hands, so we see conditions that really affect people’s daily lives.” She says, “I like being able to help a wide variety of people get their lives back.”
Mary and her husband, Brian, run the Hand Therapy Treatment and Education Center in Brunswick, ME. Their mission is to increase access to occupational hand therapy services and education around the state. The center is a traditional outpatient occupational therapy clinic with a focus on hand therapy, and it is also a teaching clinic that provides student fieldwork and mentorship as well as community education outreach.
To train general practitioners and improve patient outcomes for those who are unable to reach a specialist, Mary created a program called “Hand Basics” that describes the 10 most common hand conditions. She says, “We are both helping one patient and training many professionals to share the treatment even further. Being able to treat these regularly occurring conditions really makes a difference.”
Brian Woodbury
Brian has a business degree in accounting, and an MBA. Brian's strengths are policy development, strategic planning, original problem solving, and managing knowledge. He has worked for Central Maine Power Company as a property tax agent. He has been a headquarters level director for the Department of State, Department of Defense, and the Department of Interior.
Brian’s background in strategic planning is being utilized to develop targeted methods for transferring the knowledge of a CHT to the public. He draws upon a business background in contracting, legal, negotiations, project management internationally and sales.
Betsy DeBrakeleer, COTA/L, ROH
Betsy has been an occupational therapy assistant for over four decades. She has worked to facilitate improved function and health with people across the age lifespan in practice settings including schools, hospitals, home health care, skilled rehabilitation facilities, private outpatient practices, and residential/school/day treatment programs. Betsy was the academic fieldwork coordinator and an instructor for The University of New England’s Occupational Therapy Program for 20 years which is where she developed her skills in teaching hand therapy and orthotic fabrication. Betsy’s passion is using creative means to help people heal and solve challenges in daily life in order to live their lives with as much joy and independence as possible.