Thursday, May 7, 2009

can you use the "good" side of your brain to retrain the affected side?

I touch each of my fingers to my thumb a lot when I'm sitting around. I also move them independantly for coordination. One night I was trying to move my fingers in sucession, like a wave, starting with my pinky towards my index finger. I can do it, but it's a bit clunky. I don't know what made me try it, but I held up my other hand and did them both together. It was smooth and in unison and I didn't have to think about it, I could just do it. The left by itself took some brain power to do it smoothly.

How is this possible? Could I be using the left (or wrong) side of my brain to control the left fingers. Or is there something to using both sides together that makes it easy? Could this be exploited and used as a theraphy? Can you use the "good" side of your brain to retrain the affected side?

My PT told me to look into mirrior theraphy.

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