Characteristics of handwriting pen pressure and grip force by the non-dominant hand of the elderly

Wrong focus, you're teaching compensation rather than recovery. Patients want recovery, why are you going against their wishes? 

Characteristics of handwriting pen pressure and grip force by the non-dominant hand of the elderly

高齢者の利き手でない方の手による手書き筆圧と握力の特徴.  Japanese Occupational Therapy Research , Volume 38(1) , Pgs. 18-27.

NARIC Accession Number: I247487.  What's this?
Author(s): Tomoko Uchida; Turo Nagao.
Publication Year: 2019.

Abstract: 

The objective of this study was to examine the features of writing skill in the non-dominant hand of the elderly, and to help the training of switching hand dominance in stroke-related hemiplegic patients. Study participants were 38 elderly (age 74.2 ± 5.5) and 15 youths (age 20.5 ± 0.9), whose task was to trace over the outline of 8 types of symbols presented over a tablet screen. The successive tracings of the 8 types of symbols were counted as 1 session, which as consecutively repeated 10 times. Acquired data were pen pressure during performance (pen pressure) and the force exerted by the fingers against the pen during writing (grip force). Results indicated no significant within-group differences in either group. Regarding comparisons between the groups, pen pressure was lower in the elderly than in the youth in the first half of the drawing analysis. But the grip force was higher in the elderly than in the youth group. Therefore, as motor and sensory function decline during aging, leading to a tendency among the elderly to grip the pen more forcefully, occupational therapists need to consider appropriate interventions.
Descriptor Terms: Emotions, Operations research, Treatment.
Language: Japanese
Geographic Location(s): Japan, East & Southeast Asia.

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Citation: Tomoko Uchida, Turo Nagao. (2019). Characteristics of handwriting pen pressure and grip force by the non-dominant hand of the elderly.  高齢者の利き手でない方の手による手書き筆圧と握力の特徴.  Japanese Occupational Therapy Research , 38(1), Pgs. 18-27. Retrieved 6/23/2022, from REHABDATA database.
 

Failure writing on Post It Notes

 There is absolutely no way my left fingers can hold any piece of paper down, my spasticity will not allow the arm/hand to stay still. It is a massive challenge to write on regular size notes and the smaller ones I'm using to mark the 14ers I want to climb this summer were almost not possible. And now that I have a 4wd Jeep all the access roads are travelable.

Grays: 14,270

Torneys: 14267

Bierstadt: 14,060

Elbert: 14,433

Quandary: 14,265  

Climbed Bald Mountain, Utah in 2019: 11,943

Mauna Loa, Hawaii in the 80s: 13,681, slept at the hut at the top, slightly naseous sleeping that night.

Galdhøpiggen Norway in 1981: 8,100

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People Who Write Well Do This One Simple Thing, Psych Study Finds

Your one-handed typing is a positive since your doctor didn't get your hand recovered.
People Who Write Well Do This One Simple Thing, Psych Study Finds

The method could benefit people using computers, pen-and-paper or even speech-to-text.

Forcing yourself to type slower could improve the quality of your writing, a new study finds.

Participants in the study who typed with only one hand produced higher quality essays, researchers found.

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Mr Srdan Medimorec, the study’s lead author, said:

“Typing can be too fluent or too fast, and can actually impair the writing process.

It seems that what we write is a product of the interactions between our thoughts and the tools we use to express them.”

People who type quickly may use the first word that comes to hand.

Slowing down allows the mind more time to find the right word.

This could be why forcing yourself to slow down a little improves the sophistication of vocabulary used.

Professor Evan F. Risko, who co-authored the study, said:

“This is the first study to show that when you interfere with people’s typing, their writing can get better.

We’re not saying that students should write their term papers with one hand, but our results show that going fast can have its drawbacks.

This is important to consider as writing tools continue to emerge that let us get our thoughts onto the proverbial page faster and faster.”

Slowing down your writing could help writing quality no matter what input method is used, the authors think.

The same trick could benefit people using pen-and-paper or even speech-to-text.

Slowing down too much, though, can be detrimental.

When people slow to below the rate of normal handwriting, their quality gets worse, previous research suggests.

The study was published in the British Journal of Psychology (Medimorec & Risko, 2016).

Why Doctors Should Write

If there are any doctors writing about stroke I haven't seen them. Why isn't your doctor writing about stroke?
http://shawnwhatley.com/doctors-should-write/
Doctors should shape the public’s understanding of medical care, not non-physician experts. If doctors do not write, others will.
Non-physician experts have interesting ideas about how MDs should work. Physician silence leaves these ideas unchallenged, untested by those the ideas impact.
Doctors should write books, articles, op eds, short stories, letters to the editor, memoirs, history, and more. Academic writing helps, but not enough. Academia freezes around a paradigm and forces writers into an igloo of peer review, editorial independence, and journalistic themes. (Academia research is inaccessible to laypersons)
Victors write history. Doctors used to rule supreme in medicine. That changed and, in a number of ways, patients are better for it.

More at link

Writing Your Way to Happiness

Your doctor could use this as a shortcut to your happiness instead of figuring out how to get you to 100% recovery with proven stroke protocols. Or maybe they want to get better at breaking bad news instead.
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/01/19/writing-your-way-to-happiness/

Barrister bookcase desk

I just bought this on eBay and picked it up this past weekend. A 3/4 size desk with two integral barrister bookcases on each side. I will finally have a place to write. I had a wonderful 4 tier barrister bookcase and a rolltop desk but since I was never going back to Minneapolis my ex has both of them.

My kitchen table may finally get decluttered. Finding stuff in piles with only one usable hand requires a place to put stuff in the interim and I now have that place.

 

My disaster of a kitchen table

What to write about for stroke

Anything. I love William Nealy cartoons. This one is copied from  The Nealy Way of Knowledge. It why I write about some of my stupidest ideas. If you are into outdoor sports, biking, canoeing, kayaking, inline skating, downhill skiing you should read some of his books.
My stupidity like:
 The Passport
The Epic Bike Failure
The terrifying canoe ride.