Recovering Fine Motor Skills After Stroke

Stroke usually causes weakness or paralysis of body parts, making it difficult for the child to perform daily activities like dressing up, eating food, bathing etc. 

Getting the help of another individual, being dependent on others, is a really frustrating and horrifying experience that all want to overcome. 

With the help of good occupational therapy in rehabilitation centers one can regain the abilities of the body parts. They will have to undergo certain exercises and practices for the betterment. 

Common ways of recovering the fine motor skills are:

• Repetitive Exercises: It is the brain that gets affected by the stroke that further causes in-activeness in certain parts of the body. If the brain rewires itself, the body parts will get alright. This rewiring has to be achieved with repetitive exercises on the weak areas, for the brain to build new pathways.

• Fine Motor Control Exercises (AROM): Studies show that the stroke patients often suffer from fine motor difficulties due to the overabundance of muscle mass or the lack of muscle mass. So the best way to activate the inactive limbs would be repetitive exercises with the weaker body parts. Focus, target and deliberately try to use them in day to day activities.

• Bi-manual Therapy: Here motivation and exercises are done focusing on using both the hands equally in performing daily activities. This will help in perfect coordination of hands in proper manner for pouring milk or playing cards and so on.

• Sensory Processing: After a stroke, children will be more sensitive or less sensitive to touch, therefore therapists try to retain the child's sense of touch using different methods.

• Aquatic Therapy: Certain highly qualified occupational therapists use aquatic environments for movements and skills that cannot be done in land. This will undoubtedly help children in learning coordination and body awareness in a comfortable and fun environment.

These are some of the common ways through which the weaker limbs of the pediatric stroke patients are treated for attaining full length strength and stability. 

The best rehabilitation center in Ajman and other parts of the world provide premium treatment for children and adults suffering from fine motor difficulties due to stroke. With the help of right treatment at the right time, it can be rectified.