United Brachial Plexus Network, Inc.

Welcome "new Old Guy"!!
Please share your "gadgets",ok? And also come back here more often.

FYI, I buy my "gadgets on the one-handed website on Amazon thru UBPN's Link on our home page.

Carolyn J
LOBPI/70--sometimes adult

Hello Again, Some of the gadgets i made was a stabilizing pole that i put against my waist to shoot a compound bow. As a Mechanic i have found vice grip pliers can be used for my finger grip for my left arm. I play bluegrass guitar by stringing it left handed and using a thumb pick on my left hand

hagens1

Hi "Haggen"..
THanks for sharing. I WIL USE your idea of a vice grip plyers..I have ben trying other objects large & small for my left hand for, like,un-knotting a necklace chain that has tangled. I get so frustrated when I can't hold the chain at one end to do it..Grrr! your idea wsil do great I think! Thanks.

Carolyn J
LOBPI/70

Hagens,

(Any realation to Kenneth Hagens?) I have always wanted to figure a way to play a guitar, any way you can post your techniques with pics... on the web?

Hey Hagens,

Welcome to the board.

I see that you shoot a bow by using a stabilizing device. How does your stabilizing pole work?

I currently shoot a crossbow, but would like to figure out a way to shoot a compound bow well enough to hunt with it.

Chris LOBPI

Hello I am a new guy to this site I have bpi from birth. I have had five surgeries to my good arm and was told by my doc slow down she can only do some of these procedures twice. she is needing to go back in my right shoulder for the third time in five yrs.

But i am a preacher in a country church with three entergitic boys, I love the outdoors, I love physical labor and sports I have no desire to slow down,I want to teach my boys how to be a "Country Boy" etc.
I have made some gadets so i can hunt or work. Has anyone else made any "Gadets" to get by?

Hi Hagens
From the older caveman here
There is alot of Tenacity in what we try That is a positive in life with these injuries By so many post there is another gift from these injuries that are well worth the pain we endure in doing so with these injuries .
There is always room for a new gadget to try or Dream up
We will never give up with our trys , Tenacity and the courage to be creative , comes overtime no matter when these injuries happen
Just Thinking
Mr Positive
Tom

Hello New Old Guy:

It's nice to have people that have a talent for engineering items, problem solving, and just plain helping out another person. KUDOS!

Tony/ASC
"Just One More Step"
ROBPI/Adult