TY - JOUR
AU - MICHELL, JOSEPHINE A.
AB -  By JOSEPHINE A. MICHELL (3rd Year Student, R.P.H. School of Occupational Therapy, Perth, W.A.) Aim : To provide a device which will allow a person having the use of only one hand to use a wood chisel, or any other tool which is normally held in one hand whilst being struck with a mallet or hammer held in the opposite hand. For the hemiplegic, the amputee, or any other person with only the use of one hand some aid is needed to hold tools securely in the erect position as is normally done by the assistive hand. This would include such work as pricking with a centre punch, stamping or embossing leather or copper; using a cold chisel to mark or cut sheet metal; and for grooving, mortising or dove-tailing timber in woodwork. The toolholder (see accompanying photograph) was devised for, and in collaboration with, a male hemiplegic patient with a complete right sided paraplysis. This man had been a taxi driver and was, of course, unable to return to this. He was anxious to be useful and active and was interested in doing creative woodwork. Description of the device : The tool-holder consists of three parts:(a) The 
TI - A Tool Holder for One‐handed Persons
JF - Australian Occupational Therapy Journal
DO - 10.1111/j.1440-1630.1967.tb00190.x
DA - 1967-01-03
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wiley/a-tool-holder-for-one-handed-persons-ULvI0NnRaQ
SP - 21
VL - 14
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -