St Vincents Private Hospitals

Biography

Nick Antoniou is an occupational therapist (practitioner in hand therapy) that specialises in treating a range of injuries and conditions of the hand, wrist and elbow.

He graduated as an Occupational Therapist from La Trobe University and complete his Postgraduate Diploma in Hand Therapy from the University of Derby in the UK. He  is a recognised Accredited Hand Therapist (AHT) as awarded by the Australian Hand Therapy Association (AHTA).

Nick has worked locally as well as abroad in the UK and has held senior clinician roles in both public and private settings. He currently works in private practice predominantly in the western suburbs of Melbourne as we as central Melbourne.

Nick works collaboratively with leading surgeons to optimise his patients outcomes. His passion is to assist his patients to achieve their rehabiliation goals and to successfully return them to their daily activites and to return them to work. He achieves this through working closely with his patients to understand their goals and by using current evidence based treatment approaches of rehabilitation. He is proficient with devising customised treatment programs, making and fitting protective splints (orthoses) as well as fitting and applying casts.