Angela
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My left hand (and arm) are almost useless. I'm completely right dominant, even though my father was left dominant.
When I'm doing "fine" work, like caligraphy or embroidery and needlepoint it doesn't matter, but when I'm cooking it would be nice to have a stronger left hand and arm. I used to really have trouble picking up heavy pots and cast iron pans with my left because it has so much less strength than my right. Working out at the gym has helped somewhat, but not completely. I do all the beating and folding, everything, with my right. Even when I'm kneading dough I can tell the right is getting more oomph, so I switch the dough. It's not optimal to be so right dominant.
Strangely, my feet and legs are more balanced. Never had a problem with unequal strength in my legs for ballet, although it didn't matter: my ankles were too delicate and I kept on spraining them. That was that.
I wonder why I never had a problem with piano? I guess it doesn't require much strength, but I would have thought it should have been hard for me to play an instrument where the left hand and the right hand are doing completely different things, but it wasn't at all.
The scientists really don't understand all of this, I guess.
I mean, if it isn't hereditary, then what causes it?
When I'm doing "fine" work, like caligraphy or embroidery and needlepoint it doesn't matter, but when I'm cooking it would be nice to have a stronger left hand and arm. I used to really have trouble picking up heavy pots and cast iron pans with my left because it has so much less strength than my right. Working out at the gym has helped somewhat, but not completely. I do all the beating and folding, everything, with my right. Even when I'm kneading dough I can tell the right is getting more oomph, so I switch the dough. It's not optimal to be so right dominant.
Strangely, my feet and legs are more balanced. Never had a problem with unequal strength in my legs for ballet, although it didn't matter: my ankles were too delicate and I kept on spraining them. That was that.
I wonder why I never had a problem with piano? I guess it doesn't require much strength, but I would have thought it should have been hard for me to play an instrument where the left hand and the right hand are doing completely different things, but it wasn't at all.
The scientists really don't understand all of this, I guess.
I mean, if it isn't hereditary, then what causes it?