Functional Hand Strength – Jar Opening
Occupational Therapy Intervention : Functional Hand Strength
Documentation and Activity Rationale
The patient engaged functional hand strengthening activity in which she was tasked with maintaining a spherical grasp against ‘power web’ resistance. The patient completed x2 repetitions of x3 different sized lids in order to increase intrinsic and extrinsic hand musculature and increase participation in patient-specified meaningful activities like opening jars, pop bottles, medicine bottles, containers, and more.
Grading Strategies
Grading Up:
- increase repetitions
- increase variability in lid/functional grasp items
Grading Down:
- begin with AROM before adding resistance
- decrease repetitions
- incorporate rest breaks in between each set
Appropriate Diagnoses / Deficits
- generalized weakness
- atrophy s/p hand and/or wrist surgery
