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Has any of you been able to put your hair up? Im so sick of wearing it down. If I had the $, I'd hire someone to come and put it in a ponytail everyday.

I wear my hair up! Yes it was hard..... but now its NOTHING! This is how I do it.. I am RBPI and have use of my hand, nothing else really..... I lay down on my bed, the edge of that mattress at the base of my neck, hair hangs over the edge of the bed, throw my right arm up (hand by head) gather the hair with my left hand and put it in my right hand, (the rubber band is already aorund my fingers of my left good hand)then I put the rubber band in.... this way I can wear it high or low.... its great that a messy poiny tail is in style these days, mine are not always that neat. I Hope this helps!

COurt xx

Court
I pick up the OBPI arm put it on a doorway then I brushed the hair with the left hand - gathered it up, stuck it into obpi arm on doorway ( I had the band on the obpi hand... used the left hand to wiggle it around my hair... I have been doing this since I was a kid so its something I always did.

I put the dryer in my robpi hand put it up on the doorway and move my head around with the brush... keeping the dryer in my hand... that is ok if you can use both hands and its only the arm that's not working.

Now i wear my hair short. I hope you don't mind my jumping in... but hair stuff is something we all have in common..

My hair was always thick and curly... so it was a pain.

Kath

Thanks Kath!

Thanks guys. I have no use of my right hand but I will try your techniques. Ugh. Sometimes I hate being a woman.

I have no effective use of my right arm/hand. I can't do ponytails (but it is possible one handed-I'll find a link) but I can put my hair up in a pleat, it looks quite nice even tho I do say it myself. I gather it up in one hand, then twist it so it makes a kind of rope, then hold the rope on top of my head by pushing my head against something like a shelf, that frees my hand to put a hair slide/grip thing (what are those things called? They click shut....) through the rope and there ya go. My hair is long, past mid back, so there's a tail but hanging, I tuck that in the pleat and use kirby grips to hold it down.

Don't start to do this before finding the hair grip/slide thing, the times I've been stuck with my head up against the bathroom shelf and my only hand groping wildly for the hair slide, knocking over tooth glasses, soap, shampoo, you name it.....:0)

I'll get photods of me doing this so you can see what I mean.

Couldn't link direct, but it's on the tbpi uk site, under Resources, scroll down and you'll see the Resources button on the left,click on it and hair tying plus many other things are there. Incidentally, a guy gave us this method, so the title of your post may have stopped him answering you himself!
http://www.tbpi-group.org
Hope this helps :0)

Thanks Jenny. I dont see it however under resources

Click on the Resources button and when the screen comes up, scroll down. It's 3rd from the bottom, titled "How to tie up long hair with one hand" or something.
Be interested to hear if it works, I've never tried that particular method (using a door....??!?)

...or you could use a husband. They come in very handy at times, and certainly beat hanging on to a door and sticking your head under a shelf. I live in Las Vegas, where you can get everything but decent medical care. It will be three years in March since my Trauma Brachial Plexus Injury; and I've had nothing but P.T.
No one here knows about the surgeries you discuss, neither I nor my doctor. But although I still have trouble with the ponytail, I can do braids now. So can my husband, and ponytails, and a single tail in the back. He's come a long way.