One task at a time

When someone comes back to work after a hand injury, we list the tasks of their day and take them one at a time: typing, lifting, gripping a tool. I film the same steps for the videos, so you can see how a session goes before you ask for one.

I'm an occupational therapist, and for the last nine years I have worked mostly with adults on their hands. My practice is in Surrey, British Columbia, a bright room with a long worktable, a wall of wooden pegs and a window onto the mountains.

Most of the people I see are in the middle of a working life and want to know how to get back to its tasks. We go through them one at a time, with putty, pegs and the ordinary objects of the job. The videos show what that looks like, so you know what a session is before you ask for one.