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Warning .. be careful not to overstress other parts of your body when sparing your uncooperative hand. When you compensate for an injury by using your body in novel ways, injury is possible. I am thinking especially of a back and neck pain my son developed when injury prevented his using his forearms. He was in college, typing a lot of papers, and became very fast at one-key-at-a-time typing holding a shaped tool in his mouth. Talk about hunt and peck. His neck, shoulders and back soon had had it. Doctors and physical therapists should do more about warning about such very natural alternative strategies. Good luck w your typing. Do you know about the "sticky key" programs on computers, that allow you to do commands, using just one key at a time, that would ordinarily require to hold down one key while you then depress another. On Sun, 20 Mar 1994, Scott McKinnon wrote: > Hello, this is my first post to this group after spending most of my time > reading others posts' with interest. Just a short intro about my interst > in this group is probably in order. > > My brother-in-law has PD and will be joining in the discussion group in > the near future, but he is searching for a typing tutor for one handed > typing. When he has a "flare-up" he has some troubles with control of > one of his arms/hand, and all of his touch typing skills pretty much get > thrown out the door. Does anyone else out there have the same kind of > problems? and if so, what are the solutions. > > Thanx. > > Scott McKinnon > > INTERNET: <[log in to unmask]>