United Brachial Plexus Network, Inc.

I just read your post after being off the board for a while.

Thanks for your opinion and I certainly hope that you monitor all of us grown ups from now on. Carrie keeps an eye on us some too but I think she has been rather busy lately.

I would like to ask you a question. Even though it would frustrate you if this therapy was going to help you would you choose not to do it even for a minute or so at a time? You sound like someone that will really give this some thought and give me an honest answer.

Not that I am a big fan of this BUT in watching Katie I do know that if I get her non bpi arm busy with a toy and then get her other arm to doing something that it really needs to do to avoid certain problems she does some of it without even thinking. Whereas if I don't occupy the other arm or try to splint it, she throws a real big tantrum (I don't know how many 2 year olds you have been around but these things are really nasty) and you would think her arm was just a mass of flopping flesh.

So what do you think? And thanks again..don't leave us now that you have spoken!!

I think some people have misunderstood my point im not saying that you shouldent use the bpi arm its the word restriant that bothers me i belive that you should do as much therapy as possibal but restrianing the unaffected arm to make you use the bpi arm is cruel and it i belive will make your child not want to do therapy or other activitys in the future