recovering from hand injuries
Recovering from a hand injury or arthritis surgery might take months.
Wound recovery depends on your body’s response. It might take a few weeks. However, rehabilitation involves regaining strength, range of motion, and coordination, and it takes longer.
Typically, a physical therapist guides an injured person through healing a wound and starts rehabilitation. Still, it’s up to you to regain strength through repetitive exercise and activity.
“Like what?” you may ask. Cooking, baking bread, gardening, playing a musical instrument, and picture puzzles are “normal” activities that build strength. A gym doesn't offer exercises focused on your hands, so it’s necessary for you to be creative.
These activities may be part of your everyday routine but will explicitly activate pinching, gripping, and twisting something. Keeping your body and mind active helps maintain your spirit and keep joy in your life.
Adjusting to limitations arising from injury or surgery may require specialized tools or aids. These might be special eating utensils, braces, or even a wheelchair.
Typically, an occupational therapist will guide someone to adapt to new physical limitations in a person’s body. But there will likely be emotional challenges to new limitations.
Tools to help adapt to a new limited range of motion or loss of strength are called adaptive aids.
The MyAid Jar Opener and the Container Grip are adaptive aids. Adaptive aids can offer a transitional tool while a person regains hand strength. Most people will avoid using a tool if they can use their hands, but some will find the adaptive aid as valuable as a can opener.
The MyAid Jar Opener is an adaptive aid for people experiencing weak hands. This could be a senior, a child, or anyone recovering from a hand injury or surgery.
The strap grips the jar lid, and leverage twists the lid off the jar
The MyAid Jar Opener is an adjustable strap wrench with jaws built into the handles. These jaws are for tiny tops.
The jaw in the handles can be used to grip the cap and loosen or remove a tiny top of sauce bottles, some medications, nail polish, and ALL tiny tops.
People recovering from a hand injury or surgery will often find the “key grip’ is enough to open a stubborn sauce bottle. But when it’s not, reach for the MyAid Jar Opener. It offers leverage to loosen the top with a simple twist.