Re: cheap ideas for hand strengthening

[David]

Utilising a Motor Control frame of reference (giving consideration to whole limb movement patterns of which "strength" is a performance component) AND provided your assessment indicates there will not be an increase in tone in his affected arm muscles (or a flexor-extensor compartment imbalance result  which is a possibility if he works at squeezing movements too much) AND, of course, assuming he will be into the idea of doing something like this (perhaps to help his wife?), you could try a "mirror-movement" activity like folding towels and sheets.....this is because bilateral mirror movements can assist in the recruitment of ispilateral motor pathways, helping to re-establish a pre-existing normal movement pattern (this therapeutic intervention arises out of work done by Dr. Heather Mudie at LaTrobe University in Australia) David