Surgery for floating thumb to preserve five fingers has been done and functional exercises can be started

A lot of loving things often happen in outpatient clinics. Recently, two things have made a deep impression on me, one is that a little girl was a bit scared when she entered the clinic, but she didn’t cry, instead she whispered to her dad, “Dad, you protect me”! Another one was a floating baby who came to the clinic after surgery. She was also a bit scared, so she cried a lot and kept calling out for her brother. Grandpa, grandma, and dad brought the baby here, but mom and brother didn’t come, but I could feel that the two brothers are usually very close. This child’s left hand is a congenital floating thumb, and the surgery to preserve the five fingers has been completed. When the parents came to review the child, they responded that the child was not particularly cooperative in the functional exercises. In this case, parents should not be anxious because the cooperation of younger children is not as good as that of older children. Parents need to be patient and guide the child so that he or she can slowly realize that the thumb can be used and is willing to use it, and there will be improvement after a period of time.