Do you think to use your affected arm?
Re: Do you think to use your affected arm?
Great idea!!!
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marieke
- Posts: 1627
- Joined: Fri Apr 01, 2005 6:00 pm
- Injury Description, Date, extent, surgical intervention etc: LOBPI
no external rotation against gravity, can only go to 90 degree fwd flexion, no hand-to-mouth
1 surgery at age 14 (latissimus dorsi transfer). In 2004, at age 28 I was struck with Transverse Myelitis which paralyzed me from the chest down. I recovered movement to my right leg, but need a KAFO to walk on my left leg. I became an RN in 2008. - Location: Montreal, Qc, Canada
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Re: Do you think to use your affected arm?
What Lacey says is true, I did ballet and skating and swimming my whole life. As long as I was doing the activity I used my arm, it's more when I did day to day things that I would not use it..
I try now to always use it, but at times I still forget when I am just doing day to day things! At work I use it all the time though.
Marieke (32, LOBPI)
I try now to always use it, but at times I still forget when I am just doing day to day things! At work I use it all the time though.
Marieke (32, LOBPI)
Re: Do you think to use your affected arm?
Frankie has always used his left arm as a way of supporting things that he needs to carry pressing into it with his right. As a toddler he used his feet as hands to pull apart his legos or hold things that was his way of compensating. Mare
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karategirl1kyu
- Posts: 363
- Joined: Mon Feb 19, 2007 12:59 am
- Injury Description, Date, extent, surgical intervention etc: LOBPI, had surgery when I was 9- they moved muscles and tendons from one side of my arm to the other side. I can lift my arm to about my eye level, can't straigten it all the way and can't completely supinate my wrist.
- Location: Richmond, RI
Re: Do you think to use your affected arm?
I think about it sometimes, but not all the time. When I'm lifting things I do it primarily with my unaffected arm, unless its groceries- and i don't really have to lift and just carry. I sometimes forget, and try to reach something... and it doesn't work... lol... i use it to type, but more limited than my other hand. ive also trained myself to drive with just my left arm so i can learn how to drive a stickshift!
~Mel
~Mel
~Mel/23/LOBPI