DO YOU SUFFER FROM RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS? HEMIPARESIS FROM A CVA? A SPINAL CORD INJURY?

DO THESE THINGS STOP YOU FROM DOING WHAT YOU USED TO LOVE?

THEN TRY THE SEWIST’S FRIEND!!

For one of my classes (Physical Dysfunction) in my Occupational Therapy program this semester, we had to create an adaptive device. We’ve recently been learning about stroke patients with hemiparesis (severe weakness on one side of the body), and I was trying to think of what could help if I no longer had fine motor control over my fingers. How could I still sew and engage in meaningful occupations?

That’s how I came up with the idea for my project. I would still want to sew even without fine motor control, a superior pincer grip or minimal finger dexterity.

So I created these elastic pockets on a compression glove that hold needle nose pliers which are able to do the grasping for you. All you need is the gross motor control of a flexing and extending Palmar grasp.