This part of the site is also slowly evolving! Here you will find links to info about DSS Benefits, disability and employment rights, and rehabilitation.

There will also be a list of gadgets or things that have been or are useful for single-handed use, including car adaptions etc, so if you know of or use such gadgets, let me know by email and I'll put them on a list here. Tell me about the not so useful stuff too...so we can all avoid it!

Any tips and tricks too that have helped, please let me know...thanks.

U.K. BENEFITS GUIDE. A short guide outlining benefits that you may be entitled to. Please check with your local Citizen's Advice Bureau, as the rules governing entitlement to these benefits change regularly.

Disability Discrimination Act. A piece of legislation promoting civil rights for, and protecting disabled people from, discrimination.

Driving and Adaptions A very informative guide to what adaptions and gadgets are available to help with driving with one hand legally...this article is mainly for people in the U.K. as far as the DVLA rules are concerned

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Car Maintenance When you get your new car sorted...how to do some basic maintenance jobs on it., single-handed.

Mountain bike adaptions  How to easily adapt a mountain bike for single-handed riding.

Bike adaptions #2 Another way to adapt a mountain bike.

Wheelnut remover  A gadget for single as well as two handed use

Motorbike Adaptions  How Dave adapted his motorbike to be ridable  with the controls on the left side only,

Motorbike Adaptions x2 How Steve had his motorbike adapted for single-handed riding

Motorbike/sidecar combo adaption..you ARE the weakest link..from YETI.

How to Bath a Baby one-handed.  How Jen used to bath Catie, her daughter  when she was a baby

Tying laces One-handed How Phil learned to tie laces 30 years ago!

One handed Games controllers..'nuff said really...UPDATED 10th OCT 2002

Wilmer arm splint...Pictures of Rekha wearing her arm splint for the first time, at the TBPI meeting 27th Oct. 2002

How to tie up long hair with one hand...and a DOOR! Yeti has sent me some diagrams showing exactly how to do this  

Video of Yeti tying hair one handed  Yeti on film demonstrating his technique

http://www.compartmentseventy6.co.uk/1-up/howtouse.htm    More ideas for one handed hair tying

Frequently Asked Questions. A series of articles based around the 5 most frequently asked questions by people who are newly injured.. These articles contain extracts from messages posted by people with a TBPI on the message board.

Mirror box theory about pain relief Pictures of Rekha using a mirror box based on the one used by Ramachandran in his Phantoms of the Mind studies.

How to get DLA Click here for information on how to obtain Disability Living Allowance

Onepaw's Flail arm splint Pictures of the flail arm splint and hook mechanisms that Onepaw invented with help from a prosthetics specialist. Very interesting and useful adaptation and updating of the old technology.The queens college for disabled is here http://www.qef.org.uk/our-services/vocational-training-for-disabled/employment-training/courses/

Vocational Training for the Disabled Website detailing courses and prospectus for The Queen Elizabeth's Foundation for Disabled People.

Help getting back to work Website dealing with all aspects of finding employment

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