Motor control

Activity

• Use your ‘wrong’ hand to perform a range of activities (those performed daily and less often)

• How much more difficult is it to:
  • Clean your teeth? – holding the toothbrush
  • Use the toilet? – wiping
  • Make something to eat? – holding knives for cutting and spreading
  • Have something to eat? – using cutlery
  • Clean the house? – holding a duster
  • Garden? – holding tools
  • Sign your name? – hold pen and write

• The parts of the activity that uses gross function (e.g. moving the arm) may be relatively easy

• The parts of the activity that require finer movements (e.g. using hand to manipulate toothbrush) may be more difficult

How would you improve performing these tasks with your ‘wrong’ hand?