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Recovery exercises

Recovery exercises and rehab are very important for this injury. You may quickly realize that it is not feasible to visit a physio every day - it would be challenging, both organizational and cost wise. During my days in occupational therapy, at the beginning of the injury, I noticed the environment and what could be expected of a continuous visit to that hospital (government sponsored). I tried a physio with alleged previous experience with BPI, and the prospect was not any better. On top of the mandatory nerve transfer exercises, I came up with a few series of exercises I've been doing since I was able to slightly move the arm. I don't know if these are the most optimal I could do, but I've heard that people doing physiotherapy on their own still can achieve decent recovery, so I thought I couldn't get too wrong on them. Before being able to trigger functional movement, I believe the most important is to send stimuli to the nerve. This is mainly achieved via the nerve