Atlas Physical Therapy

We take pride in offering excellent individualized Physical Therapy treatments in a caring manner:

• Treatments are offered for spinal conditions, neck and back pain, shoulder and hand injuries, knee pain, elbow conditions, foot and ankle dysfunctions, and hip and leg conditions.
  
  
• For patients with recent operations, we work closely with your surgeon for early post surgical treatment in order to return you back to normal as quickly as possible. We also collaborate with other referring providers such as licensed physicians, podiatric physicians, naturopathic physicians, chiropractors, dentists, physician’s assistants, and nurse practitioners.
  
  
• We use a holistic approach including manual therapy, modalities, therapeutic exercises, custom home exercise programs, and postural and body mechanics education and instruction.

Leslie Hoffman, OTR/L, CHT

Leslie is a native of Gresham, Oregon who completed a Bachelor's level degree in Occupational Therapy at Colorado State University in 1992. She participated in a one-year extended practicum program offered on an invitation basis, at University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Texas. In 2001, she completed Certified Hand Therapy training. Leslie is a certified Graston Instrument assisted soft tissue mobilization provider and has pursued extensive training in manual techniques including Barnes' Approach Myofascial Release. Her areas of special interest include: wound healing and repair/nutrition, soft tissue mobilization, work injury management, chronic pain, and conditions of the thumb. She enjoys the team oriented and dynamic nature of providing upper extremity care from the shoulder through to the fingers at Atlas Hand Therapy and Eugene Urgent Care.

In her leisure time, Leslie enjoys her family and pets, volunteering at her children's elementary school, advocating for children with learning needs and hearing loss, aquatic sports, hiking and camping, and snow sports.

Jude Emmanere

Jude Emmanere is a Certified Hand Therapist/Occupational Therapist. She has her Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Puget Sound, Class of 1978. The first phase of Judeʼs career centered on providing O.T. services to a pediatric population in New Hampshire. In 1985, she completed the Sensory Integration and Praxis Test Administration certification through Sensory Integration International and Western Psychological Services. Jude then worked with an adult/geriatric population in the hospital arena, which led her into a managerial position at Rutland Regional Medical Center in Vermont. Her duties included both fiscal and service-delivery responsibilities for the OT acute care inpatient and outpatient population, as well as all program development for the eighteen-bed acute rehabilitation floor. In 1997, Jude shifted her focus to envelope hand therapy. She worked at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in New Hampshire and became the lead hand therapist for the plastic surgery departmentʻs hand clinic. In 2000 she started working at McKenzie Willamette Medical Center located in Springfield, Oregon. During that time, Jude received her hand therapy certification from HTCC. Currently, Jude is providing hand therapy at Atlas Physical, Hand and Massage Therapy in Eugene, Oregon.

Jude completed certification for the use of Graston Instruments (which assist with soft tissue mobilization), and for kinesio-taping. She uses mirror boxes as one avenue to address the cognitive rehabilitation of pain. A sampling of Judeʼs ongoing educational training includes: advanced splinting, biomechanics of the hand, joint and soft tissue mobilizations, John Barnes myofascial-release techniques, neurodynamic tension testing/treatment, and evidence-based practice.

Jude considers her "guru" of the hand therapy world to be the late Dr. Paul Brand, an orthopedic surgeon who pioneered tendon transfers. Her favorite books written by Paul Brand: "Clinical Mechanics of the Hand", and coauthored with Phillip Yancey: "Wonderfully and Fearfully Made."

Jude describes her therapeutic approach as a blend of using advanced bio-mechanical principles, educating, coaching, sculpting, and appreciating the layers of the healing process that restore hand function for each personʼs full participation in life activities. Jude enjoys the many aspects of her three adult sons and one daughter-in-law. She has a golden retriever that plays search-find, loves retrieving on land and water, and loves hiking with Jude. Jude enjoys backpacking with close friends, singing, dancing, playing piano, some novice cello playing, and meditative artwork.

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