Bagels

Making Bagels Adaptively Power Point Instructions Download

Situation: A person has spasticity, is paralyzed on one or both hands, has cerebral palsy, or has one way or another lost their grip strength in their hands that makes it difficult to prepare food. This person is making bagels.

Background: People are often born or develop different conditions that can cause muscle weakness or even tightness in the upper extremities or hands.

Spasticity is a muscle disorder that causes stiffness or muscle spasms

Paraplegia is a condition that causes muscles to either be weak, or a person to not be able to use the hand or extremity easily due to loss of movement or sensation

Hand weakness is a condition that causes reduced strength with the muscles in the hand.

Many kinds of people can experience these symptoms, such as those going through cancer treatment, going through the regular aging process, arthritis, carpal tunnel, tendinitis, or those going through diabetes experiencing the numbness and tingling that can be a symptom of the disease

Assessment:
These adaptive tools:

Silicone cupcake liner
Rubber jar opener
Piece of a pool noodle
Knotted rope dog toy
Velcro based grip assist devices
Grabbing device/grip assist device
Silicone kneading bag or two-gallon plastic freezer bag

Can help this person who has:

Paralysis
Spasticity
Hand-Foot Syndrome
Aging
Arthritis
Tendonitis
Muscle weakness
Neuropathy

While they make bagels.

This person has all the items to do this and needs instruction.

Recommendation:

I’m going to show you how to make bagels using all these tools.

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Educational Material on symptoms (what it is/definition):
Muscle weakness – NIH Education on Muscle Weakness
Muscle tightness/stiffness – Education on Muscle Stiffness
Spasticity – NIH Education on Spasticity
Paraplegia – Mayo Clinic Education on Spinal Cord Injury
Neuropathy – Cancer.gov Education on Neuropathy
Hand-Foot Syndrome – NIH Education on Hand-Foot Syndrome
Diabetes – WHO Education on Diabetes
Tendonitis – NIH Education on Tendonitis
Carpal Tunnel – NIH Education on Carpal Tunnel
Link to adaptive tools at most common stores:

Silicone cupcake liner
Walmart
Amazon
Temu

Rubber Jar Opener
Walmart
Amazon
Temu

Piece of a pool noodle
Walmart
Amazon
Temu
Dollar Tree

Knotted rope dog toy
Walmart
Amazon
Temu
Dollar Tree

Velcro based grip assist devices
Walmart
Amazon
Temu

Grabbing device/grip assist device
Walmart
Amazon
Temu

Silicone kneading bag or two-gallon plastic freezer bag
Walmart Kneading Bag
Amazon Kneading Bag
Temu Kneading Bag

Walmart 2 Gallon Bags
Amazon 2 Gallon Bags
Temu 2 Gallon Bags
Dollar Tree 2 Gallon Bags
Cited works that are good for patient education (symptom or disease management):
For those going through cancer treatment – Cancer.org Education

For those going through the aging process – Health in Aging Education

For those with arthritis – Arthritis.org Education

For those with carpal tunnel – Mayo Clinic Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Education

For those with tendonitis – CCF Tendonitis Education

For those with diabetes – Diabetes.org Diabetes Education
Just a reminder, this is all just me trying to be helpful- things I’ve witnessed as a nurse that I’ve seen help some people, and some of these situations are things I’ve gone through myself with either me or a loved one that I’ve had the joy of figuring out this worked for us
I am not affiliated with the education I provide links to, and they’re not affiliated with me.
I just used it to either make this education or find inspiration in it.
Nothing I post here is meant to diagnose or medically treat people.
If you feel like you are having these symptoms, make sure you talk to your doctor or medical team.

Any opinions I express are my own, and not the opinions of an employer.