CanDo TheraPutty Standard Hand Exercise Putty For Rehabilitation, Exercises, Hand Therapy, and Occupational Therapy. Use To Strengthen Hand Muscles, Improve Fine Motor Skills, And Decrease Stress

I bought this set because I am currently recovering from wrist surgery, and I need very much to have my strength back as my job is dangerous and physical. My safety depends partially on my ability to physically control dangerous people.Basically, exercise putty is the silly putty you played with as a kid (maybe even an adult "kid"), but with differing amounts of resistance. This means they have the same downsides as silly putty. This means that they can conform to nearly anything, they can stick to text and copy it, and they can pick up cat and dog hair like crazy (so if you have animals or a really dusty house, be careful to put them right back in their cases when you are done)The different colors are good steps up (or down) in resistance levels, not too much, not too little. They are all great for different times in your progress, or different exercises. For instance, some people have said that the brown is too weak. For my current weakness, it is actually a great place to start. If you are just using them to work out, and you aren't weak, you can use this softer putty for doing longer workouts more focused on endurance. I tend to use the brown and yellow putties for my weak hand, and also for when I'm watching tv in my strong hand to increase its endurance. You could also use this for fast muscle fiber exercises, it's soft enough to squeeze quickly, but provides quiet a bit of resistance when you're squeezing so quickly. Great for martial artists like myself, or cops/correctional officers like myself, as it's important to work fast and slow fibers.Again, people have complained about the strength of the black putty especially. Yes, for regular speed training, it's really tough. It'd be great for someone with already strong hands and forearms. For those of us that aren't muscle men or women, you can do the exercises you'd like slowly and this WILL squeeze very well at a slow speed and give constant resistance throughout. I can even use it in my weak hand if I go very slow and carefully.So overall these are great for exercising, their intended purpose. I almost took away one star because they do suck up the pet hair around the house if I am not careful to set them only down in their plastic buckets, but realized that any putty will do this, it's the nature of the substance.Now, I DID find another purpose for these besides working out. These are all semi solids, so they "melt" into blobs, or into whatever shape they are put in. The softer resistances will flow toward gravity faster, the stronger resistances much more slowly. So other than being fun and cool, these putties could be used to teach science lessons, especially about gravity and semi solids, in an interactive and fun way. I didn't get them for this purpose, but discovered it accidentally. Might be fun for parents/teachers though.Overall, with the caveat that they do pick up dust, pet hair, etc. easily, these are great putties.

It was just what I needed. It helped me with my hand. Thank you

I'm a teacher and one of our occupational therapists uses this kind of "dough" for kids to work on fine motor muscles. It's the perfect amount of resistance. I hide pony beads inside it and have the kids find all the beads and then rehide them. Works great!

This is a good strengthening tool. I bought a Medium after having trigger finger surgery. The only downside is that if you accidentally press the wad against something that is rubbery, it will stick to it and not come off! I pressed my putty against a phone keypad and every button it touched was coated with TheraPutty and it took me forever to get off most of it. There is still some residue on some of the buttons, but it is almost impossible to get all of it off. So lesson learned, only hold it in your hand and only put it down in its container.

This product works greatI can feel a difference in my shoulders from using the TheraPutty.

My child needs to strengthen their hands and this was recommended by their therapist. It basically feels and acts like silly putty but it's much firmer and thicker, making it so little hand muscles have to work harder. Both my child and I like to use this so we leave it on the table for daily therapy.

It is oily and tougher than I thought it would be to work with.

Exactly what our therapist uses, great exercise at home