assistive device
Gordon Bass
Description
Collection
Title:
assistive device
Creator:
Gordon Bass
Date:
11/12/2008
Text:
Dear Listserve;
We are treating a 60 something year old male Dx with IDD. Complications
have left him with AK and BK amputations.
Additionally he has had 7 fingers amputated. In an effort to increase
his functional abilities we want to provide him with a device which
would provide him with greater oppositional force for which to grasp
objects and thus increase his ADLs.
Left hand has 4 fingers gone with a fully functional thumb. Right hand
has 3 middle fingers gone with little finger fully flexed at DIP and
PIP. The finger has no function but the thumb has full function.
We wish to fabricate a device of some description which he can use as a
glove with a distal palmer build-up to reduce the thumb movement into
endrange opposition-thus increasing the pinch force.
He currently has difficulty grasping many objects, he would like to,
among many things, hold a newspaper.
Please provide suggestions to help us help this kindly gentleman.
Thanking you in advance,
Gordon Bass CPO FAAOP
We are treating a 60 something year old male Dx with IDD. Complications
have left him with AK and BK amputations.
Additionally he has had 7 fingers amputated. In an effort to increase
his functional abilities we want to provide him with a device which
would provide him with greater oppositional force for which to grasp
objects and thus increase his ADLs.
Left hand has 4 fingers gone with a fully functional thumb. Right hand
has 3 middle fingers gone with little finger fully flexed at DIP and
PIP. The finger has no function but the thumb has full function.
We wish to fabricate a device of some description which he can use as a
glove with a distal palmer build-up to reduce the thumb movement into
endrange opposition-thus increasing the pinch force.
He currently has difficulty grasping many objects, he would like to,
among many things, hold a newspaper.
Please provide suggestions to help us help this kindly gentleman.
Thanking you in advance,
Gordon Bass CPO FAAOP
Citation
Gordon Bass, “assistive device,” Digital Resource Foundation for Orthotics and Prosthetics, accessed November 1, 2024, https://library.drfop.org/items/show/229785.
