Before the IPO and occupational therapy students met each other, a first meeting with our client Sander was arranged. For this meeting both occupational therapy students prepared some questions and an assessment which we would fill in together with Sander, the Canadian Occupation Performance Measure.
At first sight, Sander looks like a very driven, engaged and sportive man in his early 20's. But due to an work related accident several years ago, Sander lost all of his fingers on his left hand. Because of this, he experiences several problems in his daily life, particularly a lack of support on the steering wheel of his bicycle. So this is where whe want to help Sander, to find a way to fixate his hand on his steering wheel so that he's more stable on his bicycle.
Sander also informed us that it's very important for him that he's really involved in the whole process. Because of this we made a Whatsapp group with both the students and Sander, that way we can inform eachother troughout the whole process.
In the pictures below you can read the results from the first examination of the COPM.
Conclusion:
Out of these results we can conclude several things, Sander doesn't seem to mention a lot of difficulties in everyday activities. For us this is a sign that Sander doesn't really look at his hand as a real 'disability'. There are obviously a few downsides to this situation, but out of our first acquaintance it became very clear that he wants to make the best out of his situation and always approuches things with a positive mindset.
Out of these results we can conclude several things, Sander doesn't seem to mention a lot of difficulties in everyday activities. For us this is a sign that Sander doesn't really look at his hand as a real 'disability'. There are obviously a few downsides to this situation, but out of our first acquaintance it became very clear that he wants to make the best out of his situation and always approuches things with a positive mindset.
Following aspects were the most important difficulties for Sander:
Problems in
daily activities
|
Performance
(score out of
10)
|
Satisfaction
(score out of
10)
|
Cycling
|
4
|
3
|
Cooking
|
4
|
3
|
Wall
climbing
|
2
|
2
|
Work
|
4
|
3
|
Housekeeping
|
4
|
3
|
Since Sander mentioned multiple times that cycling (mountainbiking in particular) is the most important problem to him, we wanted to put our focus on that aspect. For his it is very important that he has a way to fixate his stump on to his steering wheel. Right now this isn't possible without experiencing some form of anxiety or enjoyment.
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