Hi everyone
I've just finished one week of my new prac at shents neuro outpt and it has been one hell of an experience so far. Our supervisor is very experienced and has taught us several new techniques, which is starting to get difficult to remember all!
One of the techniques that we've been taught is hand sensory stimulation ( there is another word for it but i've forgotten for now...will keep you posted) It is used for stroke patients who have reduced voluntary control of the upper limb. It involves getting a rigid pencil and having the patient sit over the edge of the bed with a table in front of them to support their affected arm in front of them with the palm facing up. With the pencil, you roll it around the hyperthenar surface of the palm and then you draw lines with the non-lead side, then you colour it in again with the non lead side. After this, the hand is "grounded" which involves other techniques (then practice the Fx task such as picking up a ball). The outcome is quite effective with greater mm activation of the UL. More to come i am sure.
Apologies for the poor explaination!
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Sounds interesting wei...its a shame at uni they dont have a lot of time to go into some of these interesting and very effective techniques especially for upper limb as it is SO important functionally! we also learnt some upper limb exercises on prac from our supervisor to faciltate wrist extn which is extremely important in recovery of function (ball throwing and weight transfer in mult directions on the wrist)-all very effective!
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