The purpose of the study is to investigate if occupational therapy may delay or prevent the need for surgery in patients with carpometacarpal(CMC) osteoarthritis (OA) who are scheduled for surgery in the CMC-joint. Our study hypothesis is that compared to participants in the intervention group, significantly more participants in the control group have received CMC-surgery after two years.
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Number of participants in each group who have received surgery.
Timeframe: Two years