Help!! Daughter having trouble washing her hair!
Re: Help!! Daughter having trouble washing her hair!
Thanks for all the advice everyone. I think I'm going to try a hand held showerhead. It's so hard because she wants to be independent especially because of her age, she doesn't want me helping her in the shower, but everytime I let her try to do it herself, it looks really bad. It's funny, when I was young my mom used to fight with me all the time about my hair not being clean and not brushing it right and it always looking bad and I didn't even have a BPI!!! She finally had enough one day and took me and got it all cut off!! I know everytime I complain about this to her, she just LOVES that I'm going through it. Paybacks are heck, huh?? 
Re: Help!! Daughter having trouble washing her hair!
Thanks Marieke,
I would really like some tips on how she can do her own ponytail. That would be great!!! Thanks!
I would really like some tips on how she can do her own ponytail. That would be great!!! Thanks!
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marieke
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- Injury Description, Date, extent, surgical intervention etc: LOBPI
no external rotation against gravity, can only go to 90 degree fwd flexion, no hand-to-mouth
1 surgery at age 14 (latissimus dorsi transfer). In 2004, at age 28 I was struck with Transverse Myelitis which paralyzed me from the chest down. I recovered movement to my right leg, but need a KAFO to walk on my left leg. I became an RN in 2008. - Location: Montreal, Qc, Canada
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Re: Help!! Daughter having trouble washing her hair!
How much hand/finger function does she have?
Can she put her BPI arm up onto her head with help from her other arm?
Can she put her BPI arm up onto her head with help from her other arm?
