Shirley Ballard, OTR/L

Occupational Therapist/Certified Hand Therapist

Clinic:Pelham

Education and Certifications:

B.S. Occupational Therapy University of Alabama-Birmingham 1979
Certified Hand Therapist

Clinical Experience:

Outpatient Occupational Therapist since 1985
Certified Hand Therapist since 1991
Home Health experience 20+ years
Industrial Rehabilitation Consultant 2 years

Professional Associations:

American Occupational Therapy Association
American Society of Hand Therapists

Personal Interests:

Family: Husband- Buddy, son Russ and daughter in law Christy
Attends Valleydale Baptist Church

What I enjoy most about being a hand therapist:

I enjoy using my skills to partner with my patients to help them regain using their hands as fully as possible and as pain-free as possible. This may be for work tasks to gardening to cooking buttoning a shirt- whatever is most important to them.

ballards@therapysouth.net