I’m OT working primarily with Hand Injuries. I bought your book to assist a client who suffered a traumatic amputation and subsequent replantation of the four ulnarmost digits in her right dominant hand. Her work requires a lot of fine motor coordination, as well as writing. We have been wondering about hand dominance transfer. If she religiously follows the exercises on your workbook, will it be enough to facilitate hand dominance transfer and return to work activities requiring extremely precise fine motor coordination skills?
I thank you in advance and appreciate your assistance!
Sincerely,
Juliana

PS: I’m going to be at the Philadelphia Hand Therapy Meeting in March. I’m looking forward to seeing you there!

To the authors of the book – you have, not doubt, already been made aware of this, but the sentence reproduced on page 1-10, “the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog”, does not contain all the letters of the alphabet, although moving it into the present tense solves the problem.

My middle finger is now the most dominant. The very tip of my index finger was amputated as a young child and the first joint has become somewhat twisted towards my middle finger.

My thumb does not stay anchored on a pen. It slides off, scrunches up, or I end up writing with the very corner of my thumb nail. Triangular grips on pens help a little. Despite this, I have no trouble using scissors, typing or knitting.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Jennifer