Thanks for your referral, we only treat healthy patients

Today we tried to arrange for some Occupational Therapy for a lady with weakness in the median nerve distribution.

OT said they wouldn't take her until she had regained full nerve function.

"Wouldn't she benefit from fine motor exercises to help her regain that function?"

"No, it's like turning up the volume on a radio that's not even plugged in. She needs to have regained FULL FUNCTION with 5/5 strength before we can start working with her."

They must see a lot of patients referred for a chief complaint of "full strength and function".