Om
Företaget startades 1991 av leg. arbetsterapeut Margareta Persson.
Med lång erfarenhet av arbete med handrehabilitering och utbildning erbjuder och anordnar ARTRONOVA kurser och temadagar i ämnet.
ARTRONOVA ger även behandling till patienter med behov av rehabilitering av arm och hand, samt utvecklar och tillverkar ortoser, stödbandage och handhjälpmedel. Företaget utför också ergonomiska arbetsplatsanalyser för bättre arm- och hand-arbetsmiljö.
Margareta Persson är som arbetsterapeut knuten till handkirurgiska kliniken vid Akademiska sjukhuset i Uppsala.
Margareta Persson CV
Qualification
Dip.Occupational Therapist (graduated 1982, Örebro, Sweden)
Forskningsmetodik Uppsala Universitet 2000, Örebro Universitet 2004
Handrehabilitering inom handkirurgi som en del i magisterprogrammet, Lunds universitet 2005
Work History
1982 – 1984 Malmo University Hospital, Sweden, Burns Unit
1984 – 1993, Uppsala University Hospital, Hand Therapy Unit
1993 – Present, continued to work part time at Uppsala University Hospital, combined with self- employment. Her business includes running splinting workshops, being a consultant for children’s splinting clinics, and at different hand therapy clinics in Scandinavia. Margareta has also an interest in product development.
Other related Experience
1994- 2004 President of the Swedish Hand Therapy Association
1998 – 2001 Historian, IFSHT (International Federation for Societies of Hand Therapy)
2001- 2004 Secretary General, IFSHT
2004-2007 President, IFSHT
2007-2011 Immediate Past President, IFSHT
Speaker / Key note speaker
Scandinavian Society for Surgery of the Hand SSSH’s meeting in Malmö 1989, European Reuma meeting Barcelona 1993, SSSH Oslo 1998, SSSH and Hungarian Hand Surgery Society Kuopio, Finland 2000, Norwegian Hand Therapy Society’s anniversary meeting 2003 SSSH Copenhagen 2004 , DAHTH German Society for Hand Therapy’s national meeting 2005, European Hand Therapy Society EFSHT’s meeting Gothenburg 2005, SSSH Svalbard 2006, Norwegian Reuma Hand therapy Society 2006 + 2007, APFSSH Asian Pacific Hand therapy meeting 2006, EFSHT Lausanne 2007, SSSH Helsinki 2008, ISSH Nashik India 2010, 2nd European Symposium on Pediatric Hand Surgery Milano 2011, EFSHT Oslo May 2011, SOF Svensk Ortopedisk Förening’s meeting Aug 2011, Sweden, Villa Manus symposia Helsinki October 2011. Eastern European and Mediterranean Cerebral Palsy and Congenital Medicine conference, St Petersburg 2012. European Hand Therapy Society EFSHT’s hand therapy day, Antwerp 2012, SOF Kristianstad Sweden 2013, ICCPDM Lucknow, India March 2013, IFSHT/IFSSH Delhi India 2013, SOF Uppsala Sweden 2013, NOIF / NOTF meeting Trondheim Norway 2013, SGHR Biel Switzerland 2013, SOF Helsingborg Sweden 25-29 2014, NOK Reykjavik 2015, IFSHT Buenos Aires October 2016, Eastern European and Mediterranean Cerebral Palsy and Congenital Medicine conference Tel Aviv 2018, NOK Copenhagen 2018, IFSHT/IFSSH Congress Berlin Sept 2019, IFSHT/IFSSH Congress London UK June 2022, Israel Society for Surgery of the Hand Conference Tel Aviv July 2022, Norsk förening for Håndterapi Stavanger Nov 2022, BAHT Conference Oct 2023, NTO Bergen Norway Nov 2023.
Presented posters and free papers at a large number of congresses.
Teaching at the universities in Lund, Malmö, Kalmar, Örebro -Sweden, Zagreb -Croatia, Århus –Denmark, Kunming – China, Helsinki – Finland, St Petersburg Russia, Jerusalem Israel.
Ms Persson is an occupational therapist, senior hand therapist. She has a vast experience on hand therapy and has been invited on many congresses as invited speaker next to giving lectures at the universities of different countries such as Sweden, Croatia, China, Finland, Kenya, Israel etc. She has organized congresses and courses throughout Scandinavia and in more than 40 countries around the world.
Currently she works part time at the Uppsala University Hospital, combined with self-employment. Her business includes running hand therapy and splinting workshops, being a consultant for children’s splinting clinics, and at different hand surgery clinics in Scandinavia. Ms Persson has also an interest in product development and has participated on several trips to developing countries like Azerbadjan, China, Moldavia etc. She has travelled and helped as a therapist with several rescue teams in war zones and after natural disasters like the Tsunami in Ache, Indonesia Dec 2004.
Received the ISFHT Life Time Achievement Award at IFSHT/IFSSH congress in Berlin June 2019