A reader asks, How is your electric hand machine doing?
This is the electronic shock machine that I wear during hand exercises, two hours a day for an entire year.
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ArtLifting is an online gallery that sells art by the disabled and homeless. This Boston-based gallery has been so successful that some of its members are now full-time artists!
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Most grammar schools in the Boston area shut down for a week in February. That's because it is frigid; two weeks ago, it was -9 degrees F (-23 C)! So the whole city leaves for somewhere warm.
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I have vision loss because of my stroke. There is a narrow strip that I cannot see around 6 o'clock of my sight.
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Nicholas McCarthy was born with one hand. He is now a professional pianist.
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New Legos have a wheelchair character! You can make it female or old by changing its plastic wig.
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I've been using the electronic arm machine consistently. It is terribly dull: 2 hours a day.
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And he's off! My son is now mobile, walking here and there around our house. We hastily childproofed.
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Our baby is very interested in bright colored balls. He crawls around our living room, pushing and throwing them, often for a half an hour at a stretch.
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Yesterday I picked up a cup with my bad hand and delivered it to my son. It was only later that I realized that I had done so without thinking about it.
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MIT's Biomechatronics Group designs rehabilitation technology. It even comes up with limbs that work better than human limbs.
In the future, will rehab be an advantage?
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The New Yorker just ran an article on using robots and video games to get stroke limbs working again. That's my approach right now.
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