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Skills Strategies for Hemiplegia
Techniques for enabling occupational performance in activities of daily living.
For stroke survivors with hemiplegia, performing occupations of daily living can be a challenge without the use of both limbs. The videos provided here are meant to provide individuals with hemiplegia with ways to perform activities of daily living independently with the use of one hand. Click on the videos below to explore some of these creative ideas developed by people living with stroke.
Self-care
Hair-drying
Using adaptive equipment to blow dry your hair with one hand
Getting dressed
Techniques for putting on pants and button shirt
Tying shoe laces
How to tie a shoe in under a minute using this technique
Brushing Teeth
Compensatory technique for brushing teeth introduced by an occupational therapist
Eating
Video on how a patient is employing CIMT while eating.
Productivity
Typing
Typing using one hand
Driving
Using adaptive equipment and techniques to drive with left foot
Cooking
Using adaptive equipment and techniques to cook chicken fajitas
News
(Stroke Network, 2013)
K9Cal news channel
This video features a news broadcast on individuals with stroke that are participating in the constraint-induced movement therapy as part of a stroke rehabilitation strategy. This provides a glimpse into a client's experience during the therapy and their recovery process as a result of participating in the therapy.