Taking Care of Your Hands and Face: Stretches and Assistive Devices for Scleroderma - Dr. Janet Poole

Taking Care of Your Hands and Face: Stretches and Assistive Devices for Scleroderma - Dr. Janet Poole

National Scleroderma Foundation via YouTube Direct link

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Taking Care of Your Hands and Face: Stretches and Assistive Devices for Scleroderma - Dr. Janet Poole

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  1. 1 Intro
  2. 2 Objectives
  3. 3 General Guidelines for Stretching Exercises (range of motion) •Heat and massage can be done before exercises to warm up tissues
  4. 4 Modalities to Help Manage Pain and Increase Joint Motion
  5. 5 Heat/Hot Packs
  6. 6 Paraffin Wax
  7. 7 Range of Motion Exercises for Flexion
  8. 8 Range of Motion Exercises for PIP Joints
  9. 9 Ideas for More Severe Finger Contractures
  10. 10 Exercises to help spread fingers (stretch web spaces between fingers)
  11. 11 Exercises for the Thumb
  12. 12 Exercises for the Wrists
  13. 13 Thumb abduction
  14. 14 Exercises for other upper extremity joints
  15. 15 Face and Temporomandibular Joint Exercises
  16. 16 Massage or Heat
  17. 17 Mouth and Face Exercises
  18. 18 Mouth Stretching Exercises (Naylor et al., 1984)
  19. 19 Mouth Opening Exercisers and Splints
  20. 20 How to monitor mouth opening (why is this important?)
  21. 21 Assistive/Adapted Devices
  22. 22 Dressing devices
  23. 23 Key holders
  24. 24 Jar and Can Openers
  25. 25 ORAL HYGIENE
  26. 26 Dexterity Exercises
  27. 27 PROTECTION: Management of Raynaud's Phenomenon
  28. 28 More Ideas for Raynaud's
  29. 29 Possible "Warm" Car Solutions
  30. 30 Protection of Ulcers During ADLs
  31. 31 Other Ideas to Protect Finger Ulcers
  32. 32 Protection of the Hand/Ulcers during keyboarding
  33. 33 Avoid Static Positioning Causing Potential Compression
  34. 34 Conclusions

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