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Jun. 7th, 2019 11:58 pmI've hit the minimum word count for my Turing exchange story. I'm coming down to the wire on it, but I should manage a bus draft.
I talked to the physical therapist about the modifications I've made to the exercise set she gave me last year. She thought they were reasonable. The weight exercise for my left elbow remains challenging because I'm at 5 pounds which is the most I can grip without using my thumb.
We discussed ring splints. She said that they're useful, generally, but not, specifically, useful for what I'm having issues with. My osteoarthritis is on the wrist end of the bone rather that at the joint at the base of my thumb, so a ring splint wouldn't stabilize that.
My thumbs still bend right and without over-extension at both joints. That's not the part that hurts. It's everything through the palms of my hand from the base of the thumb to the wrist. Having things pressing into that area is Bad from a pain point of view. Something pressing into the backs of my hands might be useful, but I think it would have to come up from my wrists.
The pain being in the palms of my hands is why I thought it was tendonitis when I started having trouble. It wasn't strongly joint specific.
I talked to the physical therapist about the modifications I've made to the exercise set she gave me last year. She thought they were reasonable. The weight exercise for my left elbow remains challenging because I'm at 5 pounds which is the most I can grip without using my thumb.
We discussed ring splints. She said that they're useful, generally, but not, specifically, useful for what I'm having issues with. My osteoarthritis is on the wrist end of the bone rather that at the joint at the base of my thumb, so a ring splint wouldn't stabilize that.
My thumbs still bend right and without over-extension at both joints. That's not the part that hurts. It's everything through the palms of my hand from the base of the thumb to the wrist. Having things pressing into that area is Bad from a pain point of view. Something pressing into the backs of my hands might be useful, but I think it would have to come up from my wrists.
The pain being in the palms of my hands is why I thought it was tendonitis when I started having trouble. It wasn't strongly joint specific.
