In a message dated 7/16/2004 4:52:16 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
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Are you able to tape yourself?  It sounds like you need a good solid splint
for at night to do a hard stretch and maybe a softer one during the day.  The
OT could also do a dorsal splint as opposed to one in you palms.  Sometimes
that helps with people who have strong palmar reflex left.  Taping could be done
around the thumb and wrist to add support and to decrease some of the tone.
Do you do stretches and positioning of your hand during the day?
Not much time at work to do it.  The one who I work with are a bit squeamish
about forcing my arm down.  They see it causes me pain but it is needed.  The
last one who helped me retired last year.  I still got the splints.  It was
made out of some plastic that was heat wrapped on my arm, if I'm explaining this
right.  I'll upload some pictures to the Yahoo group today.  There was one to
spread out my fingers and put my wrist a little straighter, the other was to
straighten out my arm.  Now having both on at one time was extremely painful.
I was working part time then.  Working eight hours with that on would be a
major distraction in my job now.  Patty is old enough now to help me get in to
the splints when I get them replaced.  I've never used tape on my hand before.
You are talking about this Kinsieo Tape when you mean taping myself?  I've
never did that even when I went to Sunbeam.  I'll have to ask the OT when I make
an appointment about that.

Michael Jeffries
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