Bridget E. Wilde (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} bewilde) wrote,@ 2008-07-09 16:13:00 |
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First therapy appt
Well, it went over by a while and it was still almost all assessment. I have been given instructions for some stretches/massage/temperature therapy/etc. to do for homework, a foam thing to put around my pens, and some general instructions on how to do things to relieve stress on my elbow and hand. Per therapist the tendonitis is almost all elbow, and the hand pain is mostly radial from that. I have to go buy a tennis elbow band ASAP. I also got a sharp lecture about doing ANTHING repetitive for extended periods, whether it be cutting up sheet rubber, scooping ice cream, or
But GOOD NEWS - as long as I do it for very brief periods of time, with stretching breaks, with my foam thing on my pencil, and very lightly and gently, I can start sketching again. It will probably look like crap, but it's a start.
For your amusement: I did a pegs-in-holes test for manual dexterity, and scored at about 15th percentile with my right hand (15 pegs in 30 seconds). Then she had me do it with my left hand - and even graded for it being the off-hand, I was in the 5th %ile (12 pegs)! (In all other ways my left hand was much better than my right.) Yes, I am very severely righthanded.
The other amusing point was trying to list "everything I can't do with my right hand without pain now." Which is to say, everything I NORMALLY do with my right hand. Which was a long long list, my friends...
Well, it went over by a while and it was still almost all assessment. I have been given instructions for some stretches/massage/temperature therapy/etc. to do for homework, a foam thing to put around my pens, and some general instructions on how to do things to relieve stress on my elbow and hand. Per therapist the tendonitis is almost all elbow, and the hand pain is mostly radial from that. I have to go buy a tennis elbow band ASAP. I also got a sharp lecture about doing ANTHING repetitive for extended periods, whether it be cutting up sheet rubber, scooping ice cream, or
But GOOD NEWS - as long as I do it for very brief periods of time, with stretching breaks, with my foam thing on my pencil, and very lightly and gently, I can start sketching again. It will probably look like crap, but it's a start.
For your amusement: I did a pegs-in-holes test for manual dexterity, and scored at about 15th percentile with my right hand (15 pegs in 30 seconds). Then she had me do it with my left hand - and even graded for it being the off-hand, I was in the 5th %ile (12 pegs)! (In all other ways my left hand was much better than my right.) Yes, I am very severely righthanded.
The other amusing point was trying to list "everything I can't do with my right hand without pain now." Which is to say, everything I NORMALLY do with my right hand. Which was a long long list, my friends...
