Hand & Upper Limb Clinic

What Hand & Upper Limb Clinic does

The Hand and Upper Limb Clinic (HULC) is a single-location outpatient rehabilitation practice based at 105 Villa Street in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada, founded circa 2000 and serving Thunder Bay and the surrounding Northwest Ontario region for over 20 years. The clinic delivers specialized physiotherapy, occupational therapy, and certified hand therapy for conditions affecting the hand, wrist, elbow, and shoulder, supported by a multidisciplinary team that includes a certified hand therapist with 25 years of experience, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, a kinesiologist, and physiotherapy assistants. Service offerings span hand therapy, custom splinting, post-operative wound care, paraffin wax therapy, massage therapy, post-surgery rehabilitation, and a Shoulder School educational program, delivered in a facility equipped with a full gym, multiple private treatment rooms, and an open-concept treatment area.

The clinic operates a direct-to-consumer, fee-for-service professional services model billed primarily through patients' extended health insurance coverage, with both physiotherapy and occupational therapy delivered by Master's-level, College-regulated practitioners. Patient acquisition is driven by a combination of self-referral, a formal physician referral pad system, a WSIB musculoskeletal program of care intake pathway, and organic social media presence on Instagram and Facebook. Telehealth appointments supplement in-clinic visits for follow-up and accessibility. The practice is privately held with no disclosed external investment, parent entity, or M&A activity, and no digital products, mobile applications, APIs, or AI/ML capabilities are present in the disclosed stack.

Name

Hand & Upper Limb Clinic

Legal name

Hand and Upper Limb Clinic

Website

https://hulcca.wordpress.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2000

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

The Hand and Upper Limb Clinic is a single-location physiotherapy, occupational therapy, and certified hand therapy practice in Thunder Bay, Ontario, treating hand, wrist, elbow, and shoulder injuries for patients of all ages across Northwest Ontario under an extended health insurance fee-for-service model.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Outpatient Rehabilitation Services

NAICS

Offices of Physical, Occupational and Speech Therapists, and Audiologists (621340), Offices of Other Health Practitioners (6213)

SIC

Services-Health Services (8000), Services-Misc Health & Allied Services, Nec (8090)

akta.pro primary industry

Hand & Upper Extremity Therapy (OT/CHT) (HSADAIAH)

akta.pro secondary industry

Hand & Upper Extremity (HLAKALAF)

Keywords

• Hand therapy services
• Upper limb rehabilitation
• Occupational therapy clinic
• Physiotherapy services
• Post-surgical rehabilitation

Headquarters

HQ city

Thunder Bay

HQ country

Canada

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Clinical Rehabilitation Services: Fee-for-service healthcare delivery for occupational therapy, physiotherapy, and specialized hand therapy services. Both OT and PT are Master's Level, College regulated healthcare professionals. Services covered by extended health insurance with patient responsible for uncovered portions.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

The Hand and Upper Limb Clinic delivers specialized rehabilitation services for the hand, wrist, elbow, and shoulder, including hand therapy, custom splinting, post-operative wound care, paraffin wax therapy, massage therapy, the Shoulder School educational program, and post-surgery rehabilitation. Services are delivered in person at its Thunder Bay clinic and via telehealth by a multidisciplinary team of certified hand therapists, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, a kinesiologist, and physiotherapy assistants, with billing handled through extended health insurance coverage.

Product overview

Hand and Upper Limb Clinic (HULC) is a single-location physiotherapy and occupational therapy clinic providing specialized rehabilitative care for hand and upper limb injuries. The clinic operates as a unified service model offering hand therapy, splinting, wound care, paraffin wax therapy, and shoulder rehabilitation programs, supported by certified hand therapists, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, a kinesiologist, and physiotherapy assistants. Services are delivered from the Thunder Bay clinic with patient education resources including protocols, guides, and telehealth options.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Hand Therapy

Quantifiable outcome

• Specialized hand therapy from certified hand therapist (occupational therapist with 25 years experience) and physiotherapists with specific training in hand and upper limb rehabilitation

Named customers1 record

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature7 records

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• CBI Health: National Canadian healthcare services provider with extensive physiotherapy and occupational therapy clinics. Comparable to HULC in core rehabilitation service delivery but operates as a large, diversified incumbent across home health, clinic, and specialty programs.
• Lifemark Health Group: One of Canada's largest outpatient physiotherapy, rehabilitation, and occupational therapy networks. Offers overlapping OT/PT services across multiple provinces; HULC is a more regionally focused, specialty-positioned counterpoint to Lifemark's broad national footprint.

Others

• Motion Specialties: Canadian provider of mobility, rehab, and orthotic equipment serving therapy clinics and patients. Adjacent to HULC as a supplier of rehabilitation-related equipment and orthotics that complement clinical hand/upper-limb therapy services.

Direct peers

• Roth | McFarlane Hand & Upper Limb Centre: Specialized hand and upper limb rehabilitation centre affiliated with St. Joseph's Health Care in London, Ontario. Direct comparable to HULC in scope of practice (hand, wrist, elbow, shoulder) and patient population, though operating at larger institutional scale.
• St. Joseph's Health Care London — Hand & Upper Limb Program: Institutional hand and upper limb program in London, Ontario providing specialized assessment, splinting, and therapy for upper-extremity conditions. Closest in clinical scope to HULC's specialty hand/upper-limb practice in Ontario.

Emerging players

• Synergy Sports Medicine & Rehabilitation: Toronto-area multi-disciplinary sports medicine and rehabilitation clinic offering physiotherapy and related services with a musculoskeletal/orthopedic focus. Comparable to HULC in delivering specialty rehab services to patients with upper-limb and musculoskeletal conditions, though broader in scope.
• Pivot Sport Medicine: Toronto-based sports medicine and rehabilitation clinic offering physiotherapy and specialty MSK services. Comparable to HULC in delivering targeted rehabilitation to patients with orthopedic and sports injuries, though serving a different geographic market.
• Toronto Sport & Shoulder: Specialty sports medicine and shoulder rehabilitation clinic in Toronto. Comparable to HULC in delivering focused upper-extremity rehabilitation and post-operative shoulder care, though concentrated in a larger urban market.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/handandupperlimbclinic
• Instagraminstagram.com/handandupperlimb
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/hand-&-upper-limb-clinic

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Investors

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M&A

Investments

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