How do you open the hand after a stroke?

This video is a progression of range of motion activities to help manage severe spasticity.

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[andrewzanas]

I must give it up to you, Dr. Tara Tobias. You've cracked the code. Thank you for setting my spastic wrist and little finger free. Who knew the thumb was the main culprit and the key to unlocking the forearm, fist and halleluia, my fingers. Welcome chords! Goodbye staccato, hello legato, hammer-ons, bending and pull-offs. Release the sounds!
LOL, I wish, but I can see light ahead where there was none before. After 14 years i'm doing things I couldn't do at all. One of the long term goals I'd set post-stroke was to learn guitar. With left hand, arm and shoulder spasticity I pretty much had accepted it to be a worthy physical therapy pursuit albeit improbable goal, but over time tempering my expectations held promise that small achievements might lead to minor miracles. For me things like this aren't so much about restoring basic movements as they are about regaining honest to goodness normalcy, flow, and helping us to recapture some of the art and beauty in the symmetry of motion.
More importantly it's about our gestalt; how the world sees us as a whole person even though we know there are parts of us that forever shall remain dysfunctional. It's not enough to be almost functionally complete as long as there's the possibility that we could still have a chance to be exceptional, if only in some small way. This is how I see it anyway.
Thank you for this.

[andyroon]

I needed this from after my stroke thank you 🙏

[AidaCalimlim-bcoc]

I need this exercise to help the arm and hand of my husband..thanks for sharing.

[markreynolds]

I am pretty good in wrist operation, but opening my four fingers is very hard . I wear a brace to help my keep hand from being a tight fist, thanks again for information Doc. Appreciate your efforts in giving your time on video.

[yaronkl]

dr., what is your view on the usage of music glove as an aid for hand impairment as a result of a stroke?

[perfectlymprfct]

Question: my hand closed and was surgically released and has been in a painful contracture for a decade now. Is it likely for my hand or wrist to break more easily? It cracks loudly and painfully when I gets caught in bedding or when slight pressure is applied. No pain meds work. It's crazy nerve pain.

[daphnerodriguez]

THANKS YOU GOODNESS 🌟 DAPHNE COTTON ALWAYS 💜

[rtb]

Hi have you got any advice on how to keep my dad's hand slack getting up from the chair it tightens up when he gets up and also tightens up when he coughs or doing anything physical with the good arm

[dextermiller]

This is exactly what's wrong with my arm and hand. Thanks for showing.

[peterharman]

Can anyone help me? I cannot get my fingers to fully open especially the little one which remains bent in and is now starting to twist outward! My hospital and physios don't seem interested anymore! I am nearing my wits and now. Apologies if I sound like a whiner but I would so love play my piano again

[queenowens]

How do you get a program? Because my right arm is not working better than it should. Because my back makes it seem like the right side on my shoulder is higher than my left side.

[nityapratap]

Hello ma'am, one of my patient had a stroke 3.5 years back. Currently he is doing all activities by own but his wrist extension and finger extension of left side have not improved. Please help me how can I improve wrist and fingers extension.

[GdUpGGmafia]

What's your thoughts on the Bioness H200 for hand recovery after a stroke?

[hamadagamea]

please.the shoes should I wear after stroke is with high heel or low ; or flat ?

[rqjgaming]

I have hypertension and I have a bad episode at the house last month where my arm went and hand went numb my hand actually made a fist and closed and about 1 hr later I was able to open it and move it. Does this mean i had a stroke I didnt go to the er but I'm alive a month after this happend. Does anybody know if I'm going to be ok my hand doesnt close anymore but my arm and hand in general is still weak from what occurred

[Phlizz]

2 years after stroke I still can’t open my hand. Is there hope to regain that function???? I’m desperate

[kunalgaurav]

Brunnstorm approach and occupational based approach neurotherapy can work wonder in hand rehabilitation

[rtb]

Hi my noticed something today while he was in bed he let his arm dangle out of the bed and noticed his hand went less stiff and his fingers slackened off why is this

[rayefisher]

I got my hand to stretch but not by my wrest took me years but stretching those fingers help alot

[elrichrainechua]

Hi dra tara im from philippines.

My left arm have a tremor or clenched. I just want to ask some simple exercise.

Thank you dr tara.