I’m having a rough time emotionally right now. I feel like I cause my husband and daughter so much stress. I’m in a weird place. The pain seems worse lately. It makes me not want to do my exercises. I need help with a lot of them, but my husband and daughter are so busy with their own things that I don’t know how to ask. And when I do, I get the help, but I can see it’s an annoyance to them to stop what they are doing and help me swing my arm around etc. I’m always tired. I’m

Neuroplasticity … Norman Droidge MD. THE BRAIN THAT CHANGES ITSELF THE BRAIN CAN CHANGE ITSELF. It is a plastic, living organ that can actually change its own structure and function, even into old age. Arguably the most important breakthrough in neuroscience since scientists first sketched out the brain’s basic anatomy, this revolutionary discovery, called neuroplasticity, promises to overthrow the centuries-old notion that the brain is fixed and unchanging. The brain is not,

Will, a friend of mine in a BPI group recently posted this - “My BPI injury has caused me to have chronic muscle spasms that cause a great deal of pain in my shoulder and my back. My amputation helped with my pain in so many ways but it did not affect this. As a result it became the major contributor to my discomfort on a constant basis.Well fortunately this is no longer the case thanks to…. of all things… Tonic water. Tonic water has a chemical in it called Quinine. It is us

I try to use my hand as much as I can. The thumb and forefinger don’t have a lot of feeling, and the rest of my hand experiences shocking horrible razor blade sensations when anything touches it anywhere. So it’s interesting …. but I need to de-sensitise my hand and fingers, so I make myself use it wherever possible … whether it’s holding something still or carrying my mobile phone when I’m out so my arm looks a bit more normal ( I only ever wear a sling when I’m preparing/co