Tommye-Karen Mayer survived a stroke at the age of 23 and has been managing single-handedly in a two-handed world for three decades. After a period of wondering whether she would ever again live independently, she began developing a system for how to accomplish a wide range of everyday activities of daily living one-handedly -- dressing, eating, cooking, doing household chores, traveling, and much more. One-Handed in a Two-Handed Worldis known as the "bible" for occupational therapists and other healthcare and rehabilitation professionals who work with patients who are temporarily or permanently one-handed. This is the only book of practical advice for managing activities of daily living one-handedly. It may be used by individuals who have experienced strokes or traumatic brain injury, had shoulder surgery, were born without an arm or hand, need to rest an arm for repetitive strain injuries, or have lost the use of an arm or hand as the result of injury. It is a practical guide to a wide variety of useful devices and technology, and provides step-by-step instructions on how to accomplish each task discussed. Numerous figures show useful tools to make the tasks easier.

ONE-HANDED IN A TWO-HANDED WORLD your guide to managing single-handedly, by TOMMYE-K. MAYER--because one-handedness happens to anyone a dozen different ways. There's REPETITIVE STRESS INJURY (RSI), CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME (CTS), FRACTURED or DISLOCATED shoulders, arms, wrists, fingers, thumbs..., TENNIS ELBOW, HEAD INJURY, STROKE, & AMPUTATION. Because of a car, work, skiing, biking or motorcycle accident. Or, what about tennis elbow, just playing around, falls, or freak household accidents. Odds are that at sometime, you too will be single-handed. If it's already happened to you. If you're already in this boat, THIS IS THE BOOK YOU NEED! When you're ONE-HANDED IN A TWO-HANDED WORLD, how do you dress? Tie your shoes, a necktie, a scarf? How do you manage your phone, the keyboard, (the keyboard!), & paperwork simultaneously--How do you work? How do you reach for a sip of coffee while reading a book, without loosing you place? Or read a newspaper single-handedly. For that matter, how do you relax over a hand of cards? Not to worry. When the strains of living longer & harder leave you "one-handed in this two-handed world," you need only to refer to TOMMYE-K. MAYER's complete guide to managing single-handedly. 225 pp., first edition, Illus.

Chapter headings include: personal care, dressing, eating, dining out, cooking, cleaning up, household chores, office work, traveling, household repairs, leisure activities, sports (baseball, bowling, fishing, golf, running, skiing, swimming, table tennis, volleyball), and sexuality.

There's no way a little thing like losing his hand will keep Norm from trying out for baseball.

A little boy brings his older brother, born with one hand, for show-and-tell. The students ask him all sorts of questions about how he does things with one hand and realize that he can do anything they can do, he just does it differently. Along the way, they notice that we're all different in one way or another, leading to the realization that not only are differences a similarity we all share, but, they are what make us unique - AND AWESOME!

Through fascinating case studies of notables from ancient to modern times, Ed Wright explains the secret of lefty success.