Hand therapy....

Hand therapy.....

Yesterday, I started hand therapy..after a year and  a half of pain, shots, surgery  and casts of different sizes...there are "Nearly 35 muscles move the hand. 17 muscles move the palm section of the hand. 18 muscles assist with moving the forearm in the hand. There are also 48 nerves in the hand.
Reference: www.eatonhand.com"

We are so intricately and wonderfully made....it is hard to fathom, until we have to work one muscle group over another, or don't have the use of some we take for granted...large or small..

When you read through some information, the author talk about the "evolutionary" process of our bodies...I just have to think, how did they get from point a to point b? It makes so much more sense to say that we were created this way, than coming up through the ranks of animal life to what we are....God made us...it wasn't just a big mistake over millions of years....

I have to relearn how to use those fine muscles that do soooo very much. Just the angle of the thumb uses different muscles correctly or incorrectly.. It is interesting, frustrating, painful all wrapped into one..to get back correct function...but worth the effort....

Kind of like working with people, functioning well as families, churches...it takes time, effort and sometimes pain...to build one another, to grow and exercise our particular place being guided by the Creator..the Author and Finisher of our faith...we can choose to follow the directions, exercises and gain the best or we can choose to not exercise, not follow God's plan and be immobilized.

As painful as it is, I want to grow.  I want to be the best I can be...I want to follow the directions, follow the plan...in this hand therapy and in life with my God...

Thank YOU for your pictures again and and again of Your guiding in my life...You give the directions, the vision, the Word to follow....

Wikipedia.org-Fingers are some of the densest areas of nerve endings on the body, are the richest source of tactile feedback, and have the greatest positioning capability of the body; thus the sense of touch is intimately associated with hands. Like other paired organs (eyes, feet, legs), each hand is dominantly controlled by the opposing brain hemisphere, so that handedness, or the preferred hand choice for single-handed activities such as writing with a pencil, reflects individual brain functioning.

The human hand has 27 bones, not including the sesamoid bone, the number of which varies between people. 14 of which are the phalanges (proximal, intermediate and distal) of the fingers. The metacarpals are the bones that connects the fingers and the wrist. Each human hand has 5 metacarpals and 8 carpal bones.



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