Mhs, OTR, CHT
Ashim Bakshi, OTR, MHS, CHT
Ashim Bakshi is the owner and clinical director of Hand and Orthopedic Rehab Clinic, which is a specialized outpatient clinic with 2 locations in Terre Haute and Brazil, Indiana.
Graduated in 1995 from Delhi University with a Bachelor’s in Occupational Therapy. He received his graduate fellowship in hand therapy from Texas Women’s University and Baylor College of Medicine in Houston TX in 2002. He completed Masters in Health Sciences in Occupational Therapy with specialization in orthopedics fr
om University of Indianapolis in 2005. Ashim has presented locally and nationally on topics relating to upper extremity orthopedic rehab including at the 2007 and 2008 ASHT national conferences and as a keynote speaker at the Texas Chapter of ASHT. He served as a co-chair in the ASHT’s professional relations committee.
Ashim is an active member of the American Society of Shoulder and Elbow Therapists (ASSET) and the American Society for Hand Therapists (ASHT) and has presented at multiple annual conferences besides being a contributor to ASHT’s webinar series. Ashim was one of the collaborative authors for the seminal paper on consensus guidelines of rehab for shoulder arthroplasty that was published in the Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery. More recently he was the invited speaker at the Federation for European Societies of Hand Surgery Congress that was held in Rimini Italy and the 2025 IFSSH Triennial Congress in Washington DC.
Presentations / Lectures / Publications
Management of Subacromial Impingement-A combination approach using manual therapy and supervised exercises.
Clinical Pearls and Tips
Peripheral Nerve injuries . A Paradigm of Assessment, Differential diagnosis and Treatment for the hand therapist
Manual Therapy of the Upper Quadrant. A Primer for the hand therapist. Keynote speaker at the Texas chapter of ASHT. Dallas TX
Manual Therapy – An Advanced Level Lab -Based course for the Experienced Therapist.
Guest lecturer / speaker at Indiana State University and Indiana University School of Medicine- Terre Haute
Paradigm of differential diagnosis, assessment, and treatment of the upper quadrant nerve & orthopedic systems.
Sports medicine for the upper quadrant – with splinting and taping.
Comprehensive management of the post surgical arm
Incidence of concomitant disputed neurogenic thoracic outlet syndrome with rotator cuff tear and its effect on post-operative management and outcome. – A clinical case report.
Thoracic Outlet Syndrome – Functional Anatomy, assessment and management .
Neural Mobilization with myofascial manipulation
Keynote speaker at the 2016 Annual California Association of Hand Therapy
Invited speaker for the IFSSH /IFSHT Triennial Congress 2019 in Berlin Germany. ” Science and Principles of Neurodynamics- From Theoretical concepts to Practice”
The American Society of Shoulder and Elbow Therapists’ Consensus Statement on Rehabilitation For Anatomic Total Shoulder Arthroplasty . Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery October 2020
Commencement speech