hand specialist

Hi jinky, ask the specialist if wearing a resting splint at night may help maintain your range of movement in your hand. Hope you get a good plan from him. Fell free to pm if you want any info. Best wishes steph x

Jinky,

Thinking of you and sorry that you have had such a rough time.

Sue

Hi Jinky,

 I also have problems with my LE hand and I noticed that daily exercises and stretches of Hands/fingers/wrists have helped a lot in releaving stiffness, cramps, and numbness numbness.  Here are several links from the Ohio State University Medical Center where you can find exercises:

https://patienteducation.osumc.edu/Documents/sixpack.pdf - Six pack Active Hand exercises

https://patienteducation.osumc.edu/Documents/hnds-fin.pdf - Hand and Finger exercises

https://patienteducation.osumc.edu/Documents/thra-put.pdf - Thera-putty exercises

https://patienteducation.osumc.edu/Documents/tendon-gliding.pdf - Tendon gliding

These videos also show several hand exercises for Arthritis.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbfYgJlyT70&feature=BFa&list=ULsbfYgJlyT70&lf=mfu_in_order - Hand exercises for arthritis

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hR65jEsMnic&feature=related - Finger exercises -Mary Ann Wilson

Five minutes several times every day will definitely improve your strength, flexibility, ROM...  Remember persistence pays off.

Take care

When I had hand therapy after my broken hand, these were the exercises I did, and the OT didn't have images like this. I did toss the therapy putty when I was done, but silly putty will do.

Great instructions!

I've always like the Ohio State instructions (and I went to Michigan...) and here's the home page--the hand exercises aren't on that page, I found them separately:

http://sportsmedicine.osu.edu/patientcare/patient_education_materials/ 

Hi,

Still about hand/finger exercises.  This week-end, I was discussing with a friend of mine who is a sign language teacher.  I was explaining her that because many of us have very stiff and painful joints in our hands due to LE and the various anti-hormonal medecines we are given,  we need to do easy exercises daily to keep our mobility and flexibility.  She said: "you know you do get a good hand/finger "workout" when you practice the sign language alphabet..."

I thought this was a really good idea!   I tried it, repeating the whole serie from A to Z on both hands. Very good for coordination.  

So here it is:  the American sign language alphabet. 

http://www.lifeprint.com/asl101/fingerspelling/images/signlanguageabc.jpg

Jinky,

More challenging than it looks, not only for LE hand but also for the good one.  I have practiced several times, but my hands are too contracted, strangely enough the "good" one is tighter than the LE one.   It works better when the hand is relaxed.  Here is the link to the main website page.  They have alphabet posters in two colours and also black and white and a big "I love you" sign at the bottom of the page.  also a link to the alphabet slideshow.

http://www.lifeprint.com/asl101/topics/wallpaper1.htm - Sign language alphabet.

 http://asl.ms/()/images2/abcslideshow.htm - Sign language alphabet - slideshow