There was good news and bad news. The good news was that after weeks of inactivity the fingers were beginning to respond under pressure to the inventive therapist’s torture devices. The bad news? The mess created by the accident would take years to clear up. Continue reading
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Calculated risk
The therapist had an arsenal of weapons of rehabilitation at her disposal and she deployed them to good effect on my hand. Continue reading
Boxing therapy (“If you’re not crying, you’re not trying”)
Normally bandages support muscles, compress swellings, protect joints and generally help to aide healing and relieve pain. The hand therapist’s ingenious treatments didn’t quite work that way, although healing was in, pain relief was out. Continue reading
Of fortune and fists
Timing in so many things can make the difference between fortune and failure, opportunities grasped or missed, being ill or well, life and death. The hand therapist did not hesitate. Continue reading