Comments on: Popular Neurocience Professor Uses Knitting to Teach Brain Science

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By: Stacy

Stacy — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 23:45:57 +0000

What a great article!

By: allison

allison — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 18:18:53 +0000

Thank you for publishing the findings of Professor Grahn. If I may, I would like to add my own experience with what Prof. Grahn learned through her research. In 1982 my mother suffered a stroke, and, like the woman mentioned in the article, it was through her knitting that she regained her cognitive skills after this brain injury. Today, I treasure my mother’s knitting needles because when I look at them I remember how she utilized her needles and they became therapeutic tools that enabled her to recover from her stroke and continue living a productive life. Wouldn’t it be great if medicine applied this knowledge and used knitting and other crafts as a standard treatment for people recovering from strokes and other brain injuries?

By: ruth Beitelspacher

ruth Beitelspacher — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 15:19:34 +0000

I have taken my Prayer Shawl knitting with me to the hosital twice. I had open Heart surgery in 1995 and it helped get back to a task at hand. I had shoulder replacement due to a fall. My Prayer Shawl and my knitting helped me adjust to hospitalization again , however I wasn’t able to knit after this surgery as my arm was in a sling.
I am back to knitting and crocheting and it is a conversation topic at my home also.
It is fun to get others started in the craft of knitting. There is also a knitting club in town but they knit clothing items only.
I really like this web site. Ruth

By: Marge

Marge — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:17:42 +0000

I found the piece about brain function and knitting very interesting. I personally have been working with a stroke victim. She and her family state that she had very little knitting ability prior to her strokes. So I started from scratch with her. That was just three months ago with time out for carpule tunnel surgery. She is now working on making socks. May I add she has a wonderful hand, tension is very nice and even. It is like she is remembering something she has always done.

By: Gloria Dobkin

Gloria Dobkin — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 08:11:52 +0000

This is a lovely pattern. I have finished the first trees, fill-in and tulip patterns in 2 weeks. I am wondering if I’ll have enough yarn for the tulip border. Does anyone have an estimate of how much yarn is needed for the border?