The road to functional hand restoration is often a painstaking one.
Frustrations arise when days of hard work are followed by little observable results.
All too often, patient time with the therapist is limited. When the rehabilitative process is a long one, even the most motivated patient may become disillusioned. While I am a physician by training and not an occupational therapist, I know that many of the exercises used to restore hand function, while effective, are monotonous and boring to the patient. Unfortunately, I am not here to demonstrate these motions, but I will try to describe them. This is the motion you would use to create a crease while folding in the air.